Word: alum
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Harvard has always told its alum interviewers not to ask students where else they are applying, but this year the admissions office sent out special correspondence reiterating how “awkward” this question could be for students who had filed an Early Decision application at another college, according to Fitzsimmons...
...Russians are mad at Harvard again. But this time, instead of faculty bungling their economy, it’s an alum pilfering their bells. In 1930, Charles Crane bought 18 bells from the St. Danilov Monastery to save them from the Soviet authorities, who wanted to melt them down, and donated them to Harvard. But now the rebuilt monastery wants them back by March...
...around the bells, spending millions of dollars and disrupting student life for at least a semester. Significant parts of the residential house would have to be closed—which would invariably make already space-starved Lowell residents even more cramped. All this to give back bells a Harvard alum rightfully bought and saved from destruction. No monastery bells, no matter how symbolic they may be, are worth that much time, effort and inconvenience...
...acceptance speech, Ma said he had run a clean campaign against his fellow Harvard alum that was good for Taiwan’s democracy...
...result will be that for the first time, an alum of the College will receive credit for donations to Harvard’s other schools...