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Those rules, along with the other elevating standards Hesburgh has pounded into Notre Dame, leave other college presidents somewhat in awe. Says Jesuit Father Timothy Healy, president of Georgetown University: "If you ask American college presidents who is the most successful president they know, they'll say, 'Ted Hesburgh.' " Harvard's reticent Derek Bok will venture from Cambridge, Mass., to South Bend, Ind., this Sunday to deliver a rare extramural commencement speech in tribute to his old friend...
...thoughtful folks, chief among them Brent Scowcroft. He was one of the three members of the Tower board, whose report shook the White House and has set the stage for the congressional hearings. Recently he spoke publicly on this issue for the first time, to a small gathering at Georgetown University. "I found myself wondering how well any past operation would have fared if subjected to the same microscopic scrutiny which we gave to this affair," said Scowcroft. "We all make mistakes. The thing that is troublesome is whether or not the national tolerance for error is being so reduced...
...pass along the savings. Penn hopes to save $12 million next year by closer management of employee benefits. Cornell is reducing operating expenditures across the board by 2%, allowing it to post a 7% tuition increase, its smallest in 14 years. A few institutions are dropping secondary programs. Georgetown, for example, has eliminated one-third of its graduate programs in the past five years and recently decided to close its dental school. "We can't be all things to all students," says Treasurer George Houston...
...bring home the gold, Rhythm Method will have to beat the New Buicks from Georgetown University, the Beat Clinic from the University of Delaware, and Byzon Iz Pyzon from State University of New York at Fredonia, Wertz said...
That seems the charm, though the charm is not always what it seems. In the championship game two years ago, Villanova was directed to an implausible 66-64 victory over Georgetown by an appealing point guard named Gary McLain. The Wildcats' pizzaman coach, Rollie Massimino, said in the afterglow, "I've screamed at this group more than any other, not because they are such good players but because they are such good kids." McLain described Massimino as "a brother, a friend, a father, your boss, your coach...