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...From the Quarry Bay subway station, it's a stiff stroll up Mount Parker road to the rarely-frequented Sir Cecil's Ride. The three-kilometer-long, narrow dirt path snakes its way west, ducking through thick forest. If your timing is right, you will emerge just as the sun sinks behind the skyscraper-studded retail district of Causeway...
William A.V. Cecil came to Harvard from his native North Carolina after fighting for England during the tail end of the Second World War (his father was British and his mother American). He studied government at the College and, after his undergraduate years, he became an officer at a New York bank and worked both in New York and in Washington, D.C. In 1959, he resigned from the banking world and took up the role of preservationist at the Biltmore Estate in North Caorlina, his familys home. His challenge was to preserve the 250-room Biltmore House and the surrounding...
...afternoon recently, Cecil sat down to reminisce. He typed what came to mind, and here is the resulta look at the lighter side of College life in the Class...
DIED. BRITTANIE CECIL, 13, eighth-grader struck in the head with a puck while watching a National Hockey League game, the first such fan fatality in the league's history; two days before her 14th birthday; in Columbus, Ohio. An artery to her brain was damaged, doctors later determined, when the puck caused her head to snap back...
...Rhodes Scholarship, which was established in 1902 by the will of British explorer Cecil Rhodes, is the oldest international study award for American students...