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...highly-motivated in the Marines and academically confident at Riverside. Hamlin "turned to people and a global perspective" at Harvard. "I felt like I had made it, that it was all over," he says. "It wasn't." But he knew "they weren't going to stump me on any exam or catch me off guard," and he proceeded to "cultivate and cash in on contacts and connections." He sums up his philosophy about the University by declaring: "If you want Harvard to take care of you, you have to seek it out. You have to use it. Connections and resources...
...distance between the Saigon embassy and the paths of the Yard is incalculable. But whether Chuck Hamlin is pushing helicopters off carriers, cramming for an exam, or selling real estate, he is doing it. Bold assertion belongs to a previous time, perhaps, but that hasn't stopped...
...take her finals. "Every semester here I've had to read at least one of my exams to my section leader," she says. "I failed handwriting every single year in junior high. I can't do a thing coordinated with my hands except play baseball. It's so embarrassing to have to read your mistakes all over again." Her handwriting is illegible because she writes so fast, Photo says, adding that the one time she had to transcribe a Government exam, the typewritten manuscript came out to 20 pages...
...take her study habits. Every term, she swears to most of her friends and tutors that she is failing, that she cannot possibly finish all her work, that she doesn't understand a thing. And then she aces the final exam and is nominated for Phi Beta Kappa...
...football games were planned weeks in advance in the fall of 1955, despite the team's dismal Ivy League performance. Few remember the details, but a right end named Ted Kennedy (back at school after a year's banishment for some confusion over a certain Spanish exam) scored the only Harvard touchdown against yale that year, as the Bulldogs and the snow combined to defeat the Crimson, 21-7 in New Haven...