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...Renaissance historian Bernard Berenson, Class of 1887, bequeathed his Italian estate at Villa I Tatti and library collections to his alma mater. The villa now houses the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy, as well as Berenson’s 130,000 volumes and more than 300,000 photographs...
...hand, University officials argue that “legacy admissions are integral to the kind of community that any private educational institution is,” as then-President Lawrence H. Summers phrased the party line. According to this logic, alumni are more likely to contribute to their alma mater (financially and otherwise) if their children are admitted to Harvard. For a long time, I myself found this argument compelling. My parents are not Harvard degree-holders, but I have benefited from scholarship funds established by alumni whose progeny matriculated here. Perhaps those alums wouldn’t have donated...
...first half of the 20th century.” The legacy “feather,” then, is a public-relations blunder of Summers-esque proportions. It casts a shadow upon Harvard’s sincere commitment to meritocracy. Why would alumni want to see their alma mater dragged through the mud on account of a policy with such marginal practical benefit...
...justified or not. Everywhere you go, people will simultaneously expect great things from you and be ready to knock you down. The more you flaunt that you’re there to change the world, and that you are credentialed to do so because of your fine Cambridge alma mater, the more people will try to put you in your place. Rely on your personal strengths, not on your credentials. They’ve both been earned in your four years here, but the former will serve you better than the latter in the years to come...
...Somewhere in the back of my mind—buried deep beneath Positive Psychology lectures and the term “mandibular fenestra”—was this, the reality that I orally committed to my alma mater in Language Arts...