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Today Harvard regrettably appears content with the status quo, confident that Harvard parents will sacrifice anything. As an alumnus, I find this position hubristic. As an educational administrator, I hope Harvard will revive the leadership role in financing higher education demonstrated by its own Medical School a decade ago. Bayler F. Mason '51 Special assistant to the president, Boston University
...alumnus of the Class of '69, I would like to see today's protesters put their money where their mouth is. Are they willing to pay the personal price of helping bring outrageous injustice to an end? Or is all the marching and shouting just another empty rite of spring? --Marvin Hightower
Michael C. Calhoun, a panelist and an alumnus, advised law students Saturday to consider seriously international business and law as careers because of the current scarcity of blacks in those fields...
There is another potential winner. For Fred Sullivan, 63, the red-haired and compulsively energetic chairman of Walter Kidde, the sale of U.S. Lines completes an eight-year saga of frustration and expensive litigation. Sullivan, a Litton Industries alumnus who ran the conglomerate with Founders Tex Thornton and Roy Ash, has built Kidde from a sleepy outfit into a diversified firm (cranes, safety equipment, sporting goods, etc.) with 1977 sales of $1.5 billion and profits of $56.7 million. But the acquisition of U.S. Lines in 1969 for $104 million in cash and stock was, Sullivan admits, a grave mistake...
...Being the child of an alumnus can heal the sick but it cannot raise the dead," Evans says. This year about 900 alumni children applied and about 350 were admitted, Jewett says, adding that the figure should be evaluated in light of the fact that alumni children tend to come from advantaged backgrounds...