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...sandwich place which made a terrific roast beef.”After graduation, Leder enrolled in Harvard Medical School where he got his M.D.Given the socio-political climate of the sixties, Leder chose to join the National Institute of Health (NIH) to avoid the draft. Once in Bethesda, Leder wound up in Marshall W. Nirenberg’s lab, where he and others established the critical link between messenger RNA and protein, allowing scientists for the first time to predict protein sequences encoded by mRNA.“I saw the possibilities of working in science research...
...recognized when he served as the director of Northeastern University’s School of Journalism, Daniloff stumbled upon his profession. After graduation, Daniloff had hoped to go into government service, but a series of rejections set his plans askew. He first tried joining the Navy to fulfill the draft requirement, but he was rejected because of unstable blood pressure. Then he tried joining the Foreign Service, but he failed the entrance exam—an event he partially attributes to the shoddy education in American history he received as a government concentrator at Harvard.Daniloff’s final...
...Dean Kirby initiated a number of important new programs, and I’ll want to build upon good foundations that he’s laid,” Knowles said.At his final Faculty meeting as dean last week, Kirby said that a group of professors would draft legislation on general education over the summer—meaning that the Faculty may vote on a possible successor to the Core Curriculum as early as the fall.Knowles, who did a two-year stint in the British Royal Air Force before graduating first-class from Oxford University, earned renown as a chemist...
...final Faculty meeting as dean last week, Kirby said that a group of professors would draft legislation on general education over the summer—meaning that the Faculty may vote on a possible successor to the Core Curriculum as early as the fall...
...That alone wouldn?t be so impressive, if you were using college to get out of working, the way Baby Boomers used college to avoid the draft. But you?re not. When Baby Boomers were your age, 68% of them held jobs of some sort. Today, 75% of you have jobs. Not summer jobs-I?m not even counting those...