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...Harvard’s social pupae gathered Thursday night at the Fogg’s farewell gala (theme: “Ooh La La!”), different social circles soon became apparent on the dance floor. The Advocate kids tended to undulate in delight to sublime saxophone jazz of Marcus G. Miller ’08 while the Final Club crowd and the budding socialites showed off their hard-earned dance school moves and spun each other across the floor of the faux-Venetian atrium. If Harvard is the school of tomorrow’s leaders, then this gala...
...Crimson reporters covering the merger, we often found ourselves in Knowles’s University Hall office during the months of secret negotiations. He was a delight to interview: warm and witty, by turns conspiratorial confidant and elusive roadblock, but always brilliant and kind. He had unusual flair for a Harvard dean. We will never forget his debut as “Josephine Knowles”—in lipstick, wig, and billowing ball gown—at the Gala celebration of the merger in October 1999. Knowles and then-Provost Harvey V. “Buttercup?...
...clear whether these steps will be enough to stop students from moving away from jobs whose primary appeal is helping society. Indeed, as experience shows, it is difficult to lure students away from the so-called “sell-out” track.STICKING IT TO THE MANTo the delight of its administrators, HLS has actually seen an increase in the number of students who choose to pursue public service in recent years. But it is still nowhere near the majority of graduates, most of whom still take jobs at corporate firms.“The majority of the numbers...
Even for the most heralded recruits, adjusting to college lacrosse can be daunting.Freshman Dean Gibbons of the Harvard men’s lacrosse team has certainly faced new challenges, but, to the delight of everyone in the program, he has risen admirably to meet them.Considered one of the top 15 recruits in the country, the attackman from Garden City, N.Y. considered Duke, Virginia, Cornell—three of the top four teams in the nation—and Penn before deciding to join a young Crimson squad. Committing to a lesser-known team provided Gibbons with an opportunity countless players...
...spectacular because they access the consequences of military involvement through personal relationships. War becomes diffused through a soldier’s attraction to a woman, a father remembering his son’s face. This familiarity is what makes “Our Story Begins” such a delight. Wolff pares his stories down to the core of fiction. He understands that even the most charged issues must be rendered not on a soapbox or in a drama, but in the little things.—Staff writer April B. Wang can be reached at abwang@fas.harvard.edu...