Word: georgetown
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...This should please the Archbishop, who is now engaged in a little light recreation, working on a book about Fyodor Dostoevsky at Georgetown University in Washington. He will emerge from his studies slightly before the Communion's next likely crisis: the Americans' September deadline on the Dar es Salaam "recommendations." Whatever happens then, Williams will probably keep plugging along. He is "hopeful," he told Time, but not "absolutely confident" that the whole structure of Anglicanism can be kept together. And if it should fall apart around his shoulders, leaving him standing in the rubble of his calling? Would...
Worse yet is the documented effect of the legacy preference policy on alumni children themselves. Georgetown University psychologist Deborah Perlman has observed that many legacy students suffer feelings of “self-doubt” as they wonder whether they were admitted because of their lineage or because of their own accomplishments. Why would alumni parents want to see their children endure these feelings—especially if they almost certainly would have been admitted on merit alone...
...contacted them to see if they might wish to join us for recruiting activities in November and December. Both schools have enthusiastically agreed, and we believe that our combined efforts—which mirror our current spring and early fall joint travel trips to 120 cities along with Duke, Georgetown, the University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford—will enable us to attract an even better and more diverse pool of applicants...
...Houghton ’58, the senior fellow of the Corporation and chairman of glassworks company Corning Inc., headed the presidential search committee, joined by former Vassar president Frances D. Fergusson, computer science professor Susan L. Graham ’64, former Duke and Wellesley president Nannerl O. Keohane, Georgetown Law professor Patricia A. King, Boston lawyer William F. Lee ’72, economist Robert D. Reischauer, University Treasurer James F. Rothenberg ’68, and Citigroup chairman Robert E. Rubin ’60, a former Treasury secretary and close friend of Summers...
...sport where races are often decided by seconds—as was the case when the Radcliffe varsity eight fell to Georgetown by a single tick—these performances from a novice eight crew become all the more fantastic...