Word: friend
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...uncanny ability to win people over stemmed from a genuine kindness fondly recalled by his close friends. His mother remembers Forst writing a letter to Notre Dame after having been accepted, begging the school to give his spot to a good friend who had been rejected. (“I don’t think he ever got a response,” she adds...
Rufus D. Stephens, who came to see a family friend graduate, said he was “pleasantly surprised” by the quality of speakers...
...participated for many years in a monthly poker club comprised of Harvard colleagues. “He was a man of much calmness, good judgement, and great humor, a bad tennis player, good poker player, and a great dean,” said Wilson, May’s close friend and former colleague.Iriye said that May will be remembered as “a man of his word” who was interested in the opinions of his students and colleagues, regardless of their age or position.“As far as I know, there is not a single...
...friend of mine who transferred to Yale as a sophomore was assigned to live in Old Campus, the equivalent of a second-year student here living in the Yard. At another school where I was accepted as a transfer student, all the literature I received welcomed me to the class of 2010—the freshman class that year, not the class I would actually be entering. Harvard treated its transfers both as transfers and as students older than freshmen. At the champagne brunch in Annenberg earlier this spring, acquaintances and casual friends asked what freshman entryway I had lived...
...John, a close friend for many years, cares deeply about men and women in uniform. He will be a superb civilian steward of the U.S. Army." - Senator Saxby Chambliss (Army Times, June...