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Over Thanksgiving weekend, Faust added another item to her list of “firsts??: taking a whirlwind tour of South Africa and Botswana, Faust became the first Harvard president to travel to Africa. Landing in Johannesburg after 24 hours in transit, Faust took a fleeting overview of the University’s expanding presence in the continent—several HIV/AIDS research partnerships, a long-standing fellowship program, and a pool of about 1,000 alumni in South Africa to schmooze...
...green initiative is just one of the many “class firsts?? that the Class of 1984 have initiated in their reunions. The Class was the first to have a memorial service, typically not held until the twenty-fifth, as early as the fifth reunion and in subsequent reunions...
...great Harvard graduate W. E. B. DuBois, intellectual and freedom fighter, had the blood of two continents in his veins—it would be naïve to ignore the weighty significance of the truth: that many black political “firsts?? in America, such as Marshall, have been light-skinned mulattoes, like Obama...
...with a full travelogue, because given that driving to Ithaca in the dark leaves little to see anyway, I would have very little to write about.However, in our first trip to the Harvard-Cornell match-up, we were able to pick out a number of other “firsts?? during the roadtrip experience. The biggest of such moments came when the snow began to come down outside of Syracuse, something that can turn a leisurely six hour drive beside pastoral farms into a 10 mile-per-hour crawl down a road where you cannot even identify...
...second start, the “firsts?? factor was gone but in place of the cellar-dwelling Bears were the league-leading Princeton Tigers...