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Mark E. Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of facebook.com, dropped in for some on-campus recruiting and announced he would be dropping out of Harvard indefinitely yesterday afternoon. Following in the footsteps of Microsoft tycoon and former Harvard student Bill Gates, Zuckerberg has chosen computers over campus life. “I’m not coming back,” he said. Facebook.com spokesman Chris R. Hughes ’06 left open the possibility that Zuckerberg might return several years down the road. Zuckerberg, formerly of the Class of 2006, will forego a Harvard degree to run facebook.com...
Soper, who is also a Crimson editor, and Washington went through a competitive application and interview process and were chosen by the Harvard College Fund and First Class Marshal, Tracy “Ty” Moore...
...Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, D-Mass, eulogized Nyhan as “a man of the people, who never forgot his roots.” It was in this tradition, Jones said, that Willman was chosen to be the first recipient of the Nyhan Prize...
...that the list can show a more positive side of leadership. “There’s a lot of people doing great leadership,” Myers said. “The light hasn’t been shown on them.” While the leaders chosen extend across fields and spotlight both known and unknown faces, the committee chose to exclude past presidents or people who may run in the future, according to Khazei. The list also places a new focus on the general field of social entrepreneurship. “Many of the leaders...
...article “Secret Societies: Can the Ivy League’s Big Three live down their history of discrimination?” Shea relates an anecdote about bigoted Harvard admissions policies from Berkeley Sociologist Jerome Karabel’s new book “The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.” In 1925, when a Harvard alumnus expressed “utter disgust” about the amount of Jews on the Harvard campus to then-President Abbot Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, Lowell replied that...