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...year surpassing $41,000 in 2007. Another was the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, where every accepted student is offered a scholarship that completely covers tuition. Morales, whose family would have been unable to pick up the tab for four years of college without financial aid, ultimately forwent the ivy-laden gates of Harvard Yard and now—surprisingly—pays more to attend tuition-free Olin than he would have had he come to Cambridge.For many the idea of a free private college education is a fantasy, as tuition rates around the country climb upwards...
...ECAC quarterfinals to conclude its season and his collegiate career, the senior was already in talks with the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League.The Rangers had drafted him out of high school in the 7th round of the 2003 draft as a graduating high school senior. Reese forwent professional hockey for the time being to instead come to Harvard. But the dream of playing professional hockey never left him as his career at Harvard progressed, and he considered the options available to him after graduation.“Every year as I got older, I saw guys...
...tonic, the cellphone of Simon W. Vozick Levinson ’06, the very FM writer assigned to interview Chopra, started blowin’ up like crazy, yo. On the other end was the tardy Chopra, asking whether we had started the movie. We told him we forwent Jane A to party, and he was all about to join us getting down when he realized that our host was his estranged freshman roommate. “I can’t do that,” he said, and abruptly hung...
...Associate Editor Iran Hormone ’05 forwent Friday night festivities last week to enjoy some private time with her hot new obsession, her personal website www.iranhormone.com. Hormone insists that the website was a surprise gift from her tech savvy younger brother. When asked if the semi-nude portrait of herself on the site was also a gift from her tech savvy younger brother, Hormone responded, “no—that is a gift from me to the world...
...less than twenty years later, our campuses are experiencing a not dissimilar period of forwent, whiplashed as they are by a resurgence of his hateful technique. Again people are looking for scapegoats. But this time the attack comes not from the outside but from within, from extremist splinter groups of the Now Left made up of students and-I am sorry to acknowledge-also of some faculty who for reasons not quite clear to me would like to see our colleges and universities denigrated, maligned and even shut down...