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...Monday, September 20, 1954. Eleven hundred sixty-two of the best and brightest young men in the world were lined up outside that monstrous Victorian gothic structure known as Memorial Hall. To register as members of the future Harvard class...
Wintour wasn’t in attendance, but the brightest stars of Harvard society stood in. There they all were. H-Bomb cover star Kevin C.L. Ching ’06. Heineken heir Alexander A.C. De Carvalho ’08. Erica S. Birmingham ’06 (see page 18). This was Harvard’s wonder class, our future fashionistas, tastemakers-to-be. Their week beats our year, and Scene is a monument in their honor...
...noted that in recent years the U.S. has fallen from being the third-largest bestower of degrees in these disciplines to the 17th-largest. Smith said the government has exacerbated this problem by discouraging many of those who graduate with these degrees, some of the “brightest international students,” from staying in the United States to pursue their careers. “Today the message from Washington is that these people should go home,” said Smith. He added that immigration laws have been tightened and “the shortage of visas...
...Instead, we jostled with hordes of eager beavers for some melted ice cream and then sat around an unfurnished Canaday common room with 20 of the nation’s “best and brightest.” Needless to say, they turned out to be the nation’s lamest and most boring...
Raymond D. Cotton, vice president for higher education at MLStrategies, a law firm in Washington, said that universities must use economic incentives to attract the best and the brightest individuals to lead their schools...