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...Narcisse added that he’s amazed at the magnitude of gifts HBS alums give their alma mater...
CAMBRIDGE, England—John Harvard graduated from Emmanuel College at Cambridge University and then immigrated to Massachusetts where he founded Harvard College in the image of his alma mater in 1636. Over three-and-a-half centuries later, I have journeyed back across the pond to see how the two cities of Cambridge, and their two esteemed institutions of higher learning, measure up side-by-side...
When we aren’t giving one thing our best, it is the wise friend who recognizes the situation and steers us toward something more promising to excel at for a time. Harvard will still be there to return to. We are fortunate that our alma mater swears by us and not by a fixed calendar, thereby allowing us to complete our eight terms whenever we are ready. When we are ready, we of course deserve good advising; when we are not ready, it is not the advisor’s fault...
...narrow, college-admissions sense of the word, legacy means family history advantageously intertwined with one’s alma mater...
However, the students have all noticed a spike in the number of out-of-state college applications coming from their alma mater. “Our class definitely set the standard,” says Matias. “Everyone in this year’s class was obsessed with coming to Harvard—too much to some extent.” Mendez agrees, “They look up to us and they saw that we could do it, get into all these good schools, and they thought they could do it as well...