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...those identified as future leaders, things have not gone so smoothly. Gary Hart was listed in 1979, and we quoted this comment Barry Goldwater made about him: "You can disagree with him politically, but I have never met a man who is more honest or more moral." Another '79 alumnus was Marion Barry, whom we quoted thusly: "I think integrity is the most important quality for a leader." At the time, Barry was the mayor of Washington. Forced out in 1990, he has just been returned to office, which suggests a new definition of leadership: it is the ability...
...Alumnus Owen Wister, Class of 1882, proposed building a memorial statue near Appleton Chapel, and devoting "the hundreds of thousands of dollars left over to traveling scholarships...
John S. Rosenberg, a 1975 graduate of Yale College, was named the 13th editor of Harvard Magazine yesterday. He will be the first non-alumnus to serve as editor of the 96-year-old bi-monthly...
Both teams also have rookie coaches. Brown's coach is Mark Whipple, a Brown alumnus and starting quarterback in 1977-78. He was also a member of Brown's only Ivy League championship team...
Contreras says the only way Harvard will support tenured faculty or a department in ethnic studies is if a rich alumnus were to "donate a few million dollars" to the cause...