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...University President Lawrence H. Summers was hired. The Corporation had high expectations that the Washington-trained economist would use the visibility of the Harvard presidency to take the University in daring directions. Five years later, Summers is leaving Mass. Hall, having lost the Corporation’s support after frequent tussles with a Faculty affronted by his leadership style. But during his tenure, Summers for a time did as the Corporation had hoped, using his pulpit to extend Harvard’s international reach, push for a more rigorous undergraduate curriculum, and endorse a bolder vision for Allston development. Summers?...
...think it was my first up-and-down season in a while,” Cross says. “It was kind of a lot of things hitting me at the same time, so I think that was a big difference.” Despite frequent hindrances, Cross pushed through organic chemistry and extra-curricular activities to prove herself yet again. After she led the team to its second Ivy championship in as many years, she finished third at Nationals as the team won its first-ever NCAA title, beating out numerous past winners in the process. What made...
...choice disappointed my family at the time.I grew up in a Fordham family. My parents met and married at Fordham. Both uncles on my father’s side are Fordham Rams, as are both of my brothers, my sister, one cousin, and countless friends. Our family made frequent trips to Fordham and passed by the campus whenever we visited the Bronx Zoo or the New York Botanical Garden. I watched my first live college basketball games at Rose Hill Gymnasium and attended basketball camp there from middle school through my freshman year of high school. Before I knew...
...Among those who eat together three or fewer times a week, 45% say the TV is on during meals (as opposed to 37% of all households), and nearly one-third say there isn't much conversation. Such kids are also more than twice as likely as those who have frequent family meals to say there is a great deal of tension among family members, and they are much less likely to think their parents are proud of them...
...career choices, Marina von Neumann Whitman ’56 has always known what she wanted.Growing up in the household of a faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study—a leading research center in Princeton, New Jersey—meant having Albert Einstein as a frequent dinner guest and a childhood focused on high intellectual standards.“I was my father’s only child, which means all his expectations were focused on me,” recalls Whitman, whose Hungarian father, John von Neumann, is known as the creator of game theory...