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...without meeting a faculty member of higher rank than a teaching fellow. And it is possible to make a gentleman’s C with little or no work and have the only permanent trace of one’s presence here a series of impressions on an IBM card. This spirit of live and let live extends through every aspect of undergraduate life. There are no big men on campus, only a host of little big men. The quest for fame reaches an early, flickering peak when 50 freshmen of whom no one but a few old-school friends...
...time Cuse had finished the project, he had secured a major financial backer, convinced actor and writer George H. Plimpton ’48 to narrate it, and had sold it to the network TBS, which soon aired it.“That was my calling card,” he says. “I came out to LA and got hired as the assistant to a guy at one of the studios who basically wanted a Harvard guy buying his coffee and buying papayas and getting the windows cleaned on his car and buying organic dog food...
...some reason, it’s a lot harder than I expected. I wanted to catalog all of my statistics over four years writing sports for The Crimson. I was going to give myself a career line, something I could fit on the back of a trading card, something to show my by-the-numbers accomplishments. It started off straightforward enough. Football games covered: 24, plus I was in attendance for all but seven out of the 40. Ivy League championships covered: three, the undefeated 2004 football team and the 2003 and 2006 women’s squash teams.But then...
...hopes for the future of Harvard. In addition to completing Allston, improving the quality of undergraduate education, and expanding students’ international experiences, Pritzer emphasizes the importance of science.“I feel indebted to Harvard for a terrific education, a great calling card,” Pritzker says. “And most importantly the introduction to many, many interesting and warm people that with whom I have had relationships with for the last 25 years.”—Staff writer Madeline W. Lissner can be reached at mlissner@fas.harvard.edu...
...University also created the Harvard University Campus Escort Program in 2004 to keep students safe on late-night walks and initiated universal swipe-card access to the Houses to allow students to take refuge if they feel threatened...