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...weeks ago at the Columbia football game, a Harvard alumnus sat nearby the 50-yard line squinting intently into a pair of high-powered binoculars. Next to him a small child tugged at his wrist, asking in an increasingly whiny voice to be taken to the bathroom. The alum paid no attention, keeping his eyes glued to his Zeiss lcons, Finally he looked up and spoke, not to the child, but to a middle-aged man on his right. "Damn if those cheerleaders aren't the best part of Ivy football...
BELOIT. Wis--Between 1890 and 1910, a Chicago philanthropist named D.K. Pearsons gave Beloit College a total of $500,000 He was not an alumnus or the parent of a Beloit student--in fact, he took the college by surprise when he first wrote to say he would give $100,000 it Beloit could raise a similar amount in two months...
Surprisingly, only one of the 24 contributors to My Harvard, My Yale raises the burning big question that keeps bothering this aspiring alumnus: why should Harvard and Yale be singled out as worthy of printing up--and more to the point; purchasing--a collection of memoirs by their graduates? The book's editor, Diana Dubois, concedes the role snob appeal plays in forming her book's allure: the two universities, she writes in her introduction, "combine) like their Oxbridge cousins in England, to situate a competitive 'heaven' in America (at least for entering freshmen and sentimental alums...
...June to fill the vacancy on the Harvard Corporation, the seven-member Harvard equivalent of a governing board. The choice came as no surprise, for Mockler is in many ways just like the Corporation members who picked him to join them: a white, male scrupulously careful and conservative Harvard alumnus...
...comparison with NASA, SSI is a relaxed, unpretentious operation. "Mission control" consists of a few mobile homes, and Hannah's wife picks up litter around the compound. Last week's rocket watchers, snacking on shrimp, seemed like typical Texas partygoers. Indeed, said one cheery NASA alumnus, champagne glass in hand...