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Egan first played golf in 1896 at Lake Genev, Wisconsin, and by the time he arrived at Harvard was well on his way to becoming the country's foremost mateur golfer. Egan was the first collegiate player to win the U.S. Amateur before graduating, winning back to back in 1904 and 1905. He mysteriously retired from competition in 1911 when he became a fruit grower in Oregon, 300 miles away from the nearest course...
...give pragmatic justifications for astronomy, although he does credit astronomy with starting the industrial revolution. He says astronomy provided the realization you could predict natural events--it offered "a few equations that had fantastic implications." But Field chiefly justifies the Center's work in romantic terms: "First and foremost, astronomy is an adventure--an intellectual adventure, but also an aesthetic adventure. Everyone can participate in one way or another." Field says, "Humanity loves astronomy--it's the wonder aspect. People don't wonder about bacteria, or the structure of the nucleus. It's a very primitive thing...
...week's end the names became known of other candidates high on the lists. For India, contenders included Phillips Talbot, president of the Asia Society, and Robert Goheen, former president of Princeton; for Japan, Marshall Green, one of State's foremost Asian experts and a former Ambassador to Indonesia and Australia, and Arthur Hummel, a former Ambassador to Burma and Ethiopia and lately assistant secretary for East Asia and Pacific Affairs...
...transcending of materials and presence--it is the highest place we can go," Louise Nevelson, one of America's foremost sculptors, said to an audience of over 200 in Hilles Library yesterday...
Harvard was not exactly foremost in Kirkland's mind in the spring of his senior year as he was illegally approached by several coaches and offered large scholarships to play basketball. "At the time I figured I was going to school to play basketball," Kirkland says. "I didn't figure I'd end up here pushing books...