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...When I attended Class Day as a graduating senior, Gerald Ford was President, and an up-and-coming fellow named Alan Greenspan was his chief economic adviser. Just weeks earlier, the last Americans remaining in Saigon had been evacuated by helicopters. On a happier note, the Red Sox were on their way to winning the American League pennant. I skipped classes to attend a World Series game against the Cincinnati Reds. As was their wont in those days, the Sox came agonizingly close to a championship but ended up snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. On that score...
...from surgery at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., making travel difficult. In a highly unusual arrangement, Kennedy will be awarded the honor at “an appropriate future occasion,” said a Harvard spokesman, who added that the senator had originally been slated to attend the event. Also receiving degrees will be spiritual leader, the Aga Khan; Yale developmental psychologist James P. Comer; Princeton art historian Wen C; Fong, Columbia neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel; federal judge Damon J. Keith, women’s historian Gerda Lerner, Stanford computer scientist John McCarthy, University of Chicago biologist...
...journalists, we develop working relationships with the coaches and the athletes whom we interview. But our relationships are more tangled. Not only do we see these athletes on the court and in the field, but we also take classes with them, live in the same residential houses, and often attend many of the same social gatherings (read: keggers) as them. Even with a conflict-of-interest policy that attempts to eliminate bias from our coverage, we cannot help but feel a certain empathy for the student-athletes we are so connected to.Despite the ease and comfort that our extraordinary access...
...cost to attend Harvard College...
...percent). That this remains the highest yield among peer institutions is particularly notable because Harvard no longer has the advantage of early action, which allows colleges several additional months to consider admitted students , or early decision, which ensures a 100 percent yield by requiring students admitted early to attend...