Word: alum
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...Black History Month, created 80 years ago by a Harvard alum, comes under fire from some corners of the African-American community, scholars at the University have come to the defense of the annual February feature. Carter G. Woodson earned a Ph.D in history from Harvard in 1912—becoming the second black to receive a doctorate from the University. Fourteen years later, he founded Negro History Week, selecting a seven-day span in February that included the Feb. 7 birthday of abolitionist Frederick Douglass and the Feb. 12 birthday of Abraham Lincoln. A half-century later, as Woodson?...
...course, those continued complaints will gloss over NFL rookie (and Harvard alum) Ryan Fitzpatrick, as well as perennial Pro-Bowl center Matt Birk, who graduated in 1998 and a staple on the Vikings’ offensive line the past few seasons...
...fact that Isaiah Kacyvenski, another alum, was introduced as a captain of the Seahawks team that just fell in the Super Bowl will also be discounted...
...Perkins, venture capitalist and newly minted author, recently spoke with The Crimson over the telephone about his book “Sex and the Single Zillionaire.” The Harvard Business School alum will be donating all the profits from the book to his alma mater...
Some Charm School faculty based their curriculum on their own experience. Julie Sussman, an MIT alum, said she has had to overcome her own shyness and wanted to help others in “Overcoming Shyness...