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Neil is fragile, remember. He had a breakdown from what was termed exhaustion not long before we arrived on campus and had to recuperate for several months walking tropical beaches. Maybe he was totally different before that. Either way, it shows how the job as it’s conceived of now could wear down a man, especially the kind of career administrator the school is likely to pick now. Neil has taken some stands in defense of affirmative action. He is not, however, a leading figure in that debate although his commitment to it is vigorous. Besides that...
...really felt his life was in danger during his CIA years, says Harvard frightened him when he first arrived. Though valedictorian of his high school class, Kane, a scholarship winner from a public school in Rockland, a town of 8800 found himself unprepared for Harvard's academic rigor. "The breakdown was 50% of private school and 50% public school," Kane remembers. "But I found that the private school gradates were so far ahead of me that I realized I was going to have to work very hard in order to maintain my scholarship...
...board will release the numerical breakdown of the votes, but not the names of who voted for each punishment, later this month...
March 17, 1999. One year, five months, 26 days into my Harvard career—and I was a boy on the verge of a nervous breakdown. By nature, I’m a pretty calm kid. I don’t tend to take things too seriously, I don’t hold tension in my neck, I don’t confuse the forest for the trees. But in the course of 24 hours, I was knocked...
Recipe for Nervous Breakdown...