Word: alum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your turn to run. Or else, many years from now, faced with five letters from various Harvard auspices asking for money, and reflecting upon all that was right with Harvard, but also all that was wrong, you will be an alum who never took a stand, who not once made the commitment to change Harvard for the better on behalf of those around you, and those yet to come...
Pettie's growing obsession with her lost opportunity is observed warily by her friend Albert, another alum of the Morning Star who now makes a living cleaning graffiti off the walls of the London Underground at night. Albert is another masterpiece in Trevor's long career of creating odd but wholly plausible characters. Terribly well meaning but also mentally handicapped ("Not being the full ticket" is how Pettie puts it), Albert plays a crucial role in determining whether Letitia's innocent death will be followed by others. Trevor's narrative tone is, as always, gentle and nuanced, a model...
Alan P. Morse '73 chuckles when he recalls the letter his grandmother, a Radcliffe alum, wrote to the head of the Radcliffe student council, urging the students to "get out there and protest...
Another Harvard alum, Christopher B. Cerf'63, joined the staff as a composer at the same time as Myhrum. In addition to composing he was also in charge of choosing "products...
...upsetting. But a closer look reveals that most of the things that seniors put on their lists of last chances aren't really their last chances after all. It is a little-known fact that a small fee will get you into Widener Library's stacks as a College alum, so that the legendary tryst still awaits those who missed their chance. The videos available in College libraries, despite seniors' nostalgia, are not "free" but rather part of an annual $30,000 cover charge, which is somewhat more expensive than membership at most video-carrying public libraries in America. Boston...