Word: alum
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...It’s good for students to get out of Harvard Square,” said Kaya Stone ’00, who co-edited the guide with fellow alum Esti Iturralde ’00. A Boston native, Stone says she adores the mind-boggling gastronomic variety that the Beantown area has to offer...
...mean, however, that old Veritas hasn’t appeared on the lid of a coffin or, more often, on a headstone. In fact, Scully receives a handful of requests every year for permission to engrave the Harvard shield over the final resting place of an alum. On a case-by-case basis, the trademarking office is happy to oblige and, more importantly, demands no royalties. The office then contacts the manufacturer of the headstone or casket and issues a licensed image of the shield. The shield appears as simply “Veritas?...
Woodfork, 26, becomes the latest young Ivy League alum to enter the executive ranks in the majors as he joins Epstein, who graduated from Yale in 1995. The growing list of recent Harvard baseball players includes Paul DePodesta ’95, a former JV player who is now the assistant general manager of the Oakland A’s, former captain Mike Hill ’93, who is now director of Player Development for the Colorado Rockies and David Forst ’98, who played alongside Woodfork in the infield and now works with DePodesta...
...accounts, Hill is a decent and principled man, a Princeton alum who brought Pete Carill’s system with him to Columbia, sans the success. He is, admirably, taking the high road through all this. In an interview with the Spectator on Friday, he placed the blame completely on his own shoulders...
...fact, it was a Harvard alum, John H. Updike ’54, who helped popularize Borges in the United States. In an admiring 1965 New Yorker article, a draft of which is on display at Houghton, Updike argued that Borges could furnish “a clue to the way out of the dead-end narcissism and downright trashiness of present American fiction...