Word: detur
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...Such humility, according to friend and fellow Harvard AIDS Coalition (HAC) member Matthew F. Basilico ’08, is characteristic of Connie E. Chen ’08—and perhaps misleading. A snapshot of Chen’s resume reveals a person of Herculean capabilities: a Detur Book Prize winner, John Harvard Scholar, pre-med econ major interviewing for both medical schools and consulting firms (just landing a job at McKinsey & Co.) who has also spent one summer drafting a $31 million grant for malaria and AIDS intervention in Cambodia, another documenting sex workers in Kenya...
...Harvard, Hanzich, a resident of Leverett House, was a member of Phi Beta Kappa honor society, a John Harvard Scholar, a Detur Book Prize winner, and a finalist for the Rhodes scholarship...
...remain secretive of their identities—none of the quintet responded to an email requesting comment for this column—a look through the FJM archives indicates that at least several of the group matriculated at Harvard. At one point or another in the past year, the Detur Prize, the Winthop House Library, “10,000 men of Harvard,” and The Crimson itself have been mentioned. Ozzie Guillen’s assertion last October that he was smarter than many Harvard students was dissected at length on the site, complete with a reference...
...former Detur Book Prize winner on the trip, his own school’s selection of soft bodies apparently wasn’t enough—he was spotted on the streets of Barcelona seeking the advances of one of the women of the night. Undeterred by her reputation of ill repute, the Dunster House junior flew in to show off his game and see if he could whittle down her, uhh, price, before closing the deal...
...carpet, the place to See and Be Seen for the tri-colored highlighter toting and Nalgene swigging A-List (forget Chanel, the oversized waterbottle really is exam season’s must-have accessory). This glittering and perhaps rather mythical group, presumed to signpost their academic career with Detur at one end and Hoopes at the other and a whole lotta fluorescent sourcebook underlining in-between, are clearly delineated from The Rest Of Us, who find the silence of the library a little unnerving, typically set the alarm for 6 a.m. the day of an exam...