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Despite these inauspicious beginnings, the little school that Cotton Mather called a "college of divines" slowly grew. William Stoughton, '50, who grimly sentenced 20 people to death for witchcraft, was the first alumnus to donate a building. (By contrast, the Rev. George Burroughs, '70, duly became the only Harvard man to be hanged for consorting with Satan...
...Justice Nominee William Rehnquist (M.A., '50) and three of the Supreme Court's Associate Justices, all veterans of the Harvard Law School, where Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and Felix Frankfurter learned their torts, and where a pragmatic innovation called the case-study system changed legal education in America. Says Alumnus Richard Darman, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury: "I cannot imagine the influence has ever been higher than...
...telegram said, "The arrest and detention of our alumnus Nicholas Daniloff is an affront to the principles of journalistic freedom and the unfettered sharing of information by the nations of the world. Denying him legal assistance and isolating him from his family compound the injustice being done to Mr. Daniloff. I urge that he be released immediately...
What self-respecting alumnus gives money, year-in and year-out, to a losing cause. Like it or not, success and its fellow traveler, money, have always been the standards by which sports are judged...
...alumnus who made the complaint about thevote count, Chester Hartman '57, said that such aletter from Coopers and Lybrand would notnecessarily convince him that the ballots were nottampered with. "I want to see the entire votedistribution," Hartman says