Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Former Rhode Island gubernatorial candidate Myrth York and homeless activist Macy DeLong led a discussion on homelessness in Boylston Hall's Ticknor Lounge last night...
...fundraising, we now have a process," said the former president of Smith College. "But we don't have definite agreements. We don't have a detailed agreement as to who goes after which classes and so on"--no small matter, since Harvard is currently barred from soliciting funds from Radcliffe's pre-1977 graduates...
...that's not to say there aren't real advantages to Harvard's academic life. You might not be able to track down Af-Am guru Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. or former Reagan economic boss Martin S. Feldstein '61 in person, but you can sit in on their lectures. (Though why you'd want to sit in on Marty's lectures is beyond...
...Harvard devotes its money to collecting not brand-new treadmills but timeworn treasures. There are lots of benefits to Harvard you may never get around to using (the Gutenberg Bible?), but you'll feel vaguely good just knowing they're there. Go see a former dictator speak at the Kennedy School of Government. So many world leaders come you simply won't have time for any who lead countries smaller than France...
...Legend has it that Harvard is inhabited by a tribe of pasty-faced "former" geeks for whom social life consists of reading Nietzsche into the wee hours and obsessively checking e-mail. That isn't true, of course...or at least, it isn't entirely true...