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...potential to excel at university, or in life, is just silly. Many American colleges happily acknowledge that once applicants reach a certain threshold of academic ability, they blend many attributes to obtain a class: geographic and racial variety, athletic and artistic ability, whether Mom or Dad is an alum. That last criterion is not so crass as accepting a parent's proffered check, but the difference is only of degree, not kind. In 20 years or 50, loyalty is expected to breed generosity. Usually it does. Like stealing bread and sleeping under bridges, Rev. Platt's error - linking the quid...
...money, given by NELC alum Gordon Gray Jr. ’65, will provide a steady source of funding to a department that has been strapped for resources because of its growing popularity over the past decade and recent interest sparked by the terrorist attacks...
...HSPDS earns handsome compensation. For each round judged by a team member, the HSPDS receives compensation at a $5 premium compared to the compensation offered to independently-associated judges. The HSPDS’s compensation for running the ballot table approaches a thousand dollars. A generous and devoted alum of the policy team runs the individual events ballot table for free...
...advisees wrote two-thirds of his thesis in the last three weeks. His diet consisted of cigarettes and Altoids, and he ran a grave risk of becoming spontaneously embalmed. But the human body has an amazing ability to recuperate and today he is a happy and successful alum...
Perl-Rosenthal—who, like Jarcho, is an alum of Manhattan’s Hunter College High School—is featured on the page opposite Jarcho as another “voice for the new world” for his involvement in last spring’s Progressive Student Labor Movement sit-in. While Perl-Rosenthal did not move inside Mass. Hall, he was integral in organizing the involvement of campus religious groups, bringing speakers to the Yard who Perl-Rosenthal said were able to attract a different demographic to the protest...