Word: alum
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Although Barrios is a Harvard alum, for the past decade he has often and publicly taken stances against the University’s administration—both at community meetings on neighborhood development issues and in front of Mass. Hall during the PSLM...
...understood none of what he said and that his words were the very translation of my heart’s secret Braille. I later learned he had published one book, entitled A Pop Culture Encyclopedia but have looked through HOLLIS extensively and have been unable to find it. An alum (his graduating year I do not know), the man went only by the title “The Expert” and was prone to philosophical spouts. He’d look across the room at nothing in particular and say, “There?...
...described his recent dreams of a university plagued by commercialization, beginning with the acceptance of a $2 billion loan from an alum and listing a series of schemes—including placement of corporate logos on syllabi and an auction giving 100 spots in Harvard College to the highest bidders...
...acknowledges that commercialization in higher education is by no means a new phenomenon. As proof, he points to a 1909 statement from a disgruntled Harvard alum, John Jay Chapman: “The men who control Harvard today are very little else than businessmen, running a large department store which dispenses education to the millions...
...Garcia and Ed Burns. Burns is the con man who runs afoul of Hoffman’s unsettlingly short crime boss. Rachel Weisz also stars as “The Bait,” according to the film’s poster; Luis Guzman, Harvard alum Donal F. Logue ’88 and Yale alum Paul Giamatti take smaller roles. Confidence screens...