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...accomplished pre-med student, Gilligan also left his mark on Harvard through a passion for intramural sports. The Eliot House IM secretary, he was a driving force behind the Eliot win in the 2004 Straus Cup. His personal dedication—he was known to practice and play a series of different sports for five hours a day—was complemented by an infectious enthusiasm that drew others in the House to participate, friends said...
Gilligan went out of his way to encourage and cajole fellow Eliot residents into playing...
...find yourself in a swimsuit at the pool or walking across the snowy bridge to the Murr Squash Center, because no one could say no to Paul,” Courtney K. Wallace ’06 wrote in an e-mail. Wallace was HoCo Chair of Eliot House last year, and was close to Paul and his blocking group...
Under Gilligan’s leadership, Eliot forfeited only a single event, a tennis match, during their victorious 2004 Straus Cup campaign. “He was really good about getting people who weren’t excited about sports out playing and having fun, and that was really good for the community,” Wallace said yesterday...
...World island he christened San Salvador in 1492. Yet he left no marker, and scholars have spent nearly 500 years since in debating the site. On the eastern rim of the Bahamas, Rum Cay, Grand Turk and Cat Island have been suggested. In 1942 Columbus Biographer Samuel Eliot Morison declared that the landfall was Watling Island, today's San Salvador...