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...They’re both comedically and intellectually brilliant,” says Jay M. Weinstein ’81, who lived with the duo as upperclassmen...
...pioneer—fewer than one percent of her graduating class went to college outside of Texas—and she was the first person from her school to apply to an Ivy League institution, she says.That fall, Worth arrived as a bright-eyed freshman, “brilliant and thrilled to be at Harvard,” according to her junior- and senior-year roommate in Kirkland House, Linda S. Burrows ’81.Alice E. Hill ’81, Worth’s other roommate, remembers Worth as successfully juggling commitments throughout her time here...
...occasion for a rich, satisfying digression. Holman met Franois Huber, a pioneering blind entomologist who, like Holman, had managed to carve out a career despite his disability. He studied bees using a special hinged hive that opened and shut like a book. Holman sailed with William Owen, the brilliant, illegitimate, eccentric naval captain who surveyed the coast of Africa...
...money, Brown had immense modesty, Swett says.Brown, a history and literature concentrator and an active member of the Glee Club, orchestra, and Hasty Pudding Club, amazed his roommates from the start, according to Cunningham.“It was clear from the get-go that Carter was a brilliant student,” says Cunningham, who remained friends with Brown while serving as chairman of the Visiting Committee for the Harvard University Art Museums from 1972 to 1985.During Brown’s time at Harvard, the Glee Club embarked on their first European tour since World...
...research eventually focused on cloning and efforts to isolate genes and describe their structure and sequence, Sharp says. Leder counts among his researchers current Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman, according to Sharp. “He developed a great department, not just doing all of the brilliant work himself, but having people around him who did brilliant work as well,” Sharp says, adding that over the years, Leder has identified and promoted “remarkable young talent.” Recruited by HMS, Leder says that the post was a “second opportunity?...