Word: alum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time in "building credibility" in their local community. "About the only thing you'll get out of college for succeeding in politics is that you'll be able to put in the paper, 'Went to Harvard or UMass or wherever,'" Hall says. A University of Massachusetts at Amherst alum himself, Hall spoke of his own schooling: in one lecture on state government, the professor "taught the state budget process as football with the governor as quarterback." How much relevance to the actual process that class had upon his arrival in the Massachusetts state legislature, Hall left open to discussion...
...Spring at Vassar is traditionally lively," began the apologetic letter from Vassar President Virginia B. Smith to National Review Editor William F. Buckley Jr. Lively was certainly one way to describe the campus hubbub Smith was describing. It had followed the choice of Buckley, husband and brother of Vassar alum nae, as the 116th commencement speaker...