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When Helen left home to start her freshman year at Harvard, several of her friends presented her with a parting gift??a bottle of Adderall that one of them was prescribed...
...first brand-name whistle-blower was a woman. In Greek mythology, Cassandra had the gift of prophecy. She correctly predicted the outcome of many events, warning the Trojans, for example, in “The Aeneid,” against accepting a wooden horse as a “gift?? from their Greek opponents. However, when Cassandra spurned the god Apollo as a lover, he retaliated by making anyone who heard her prophecies believe they were lies. It was mostly men who disbelieved her, leading inevitably to disaster and tragedy as it is written, “Cassandra...
Last year, as a junior loitering on campus during Commencement, I got to see the benefits of the annual fund drive firsthand. Mather, my house, had placed second in Senior Gift??s inter-house competition, with 83 percent of seniors participating. The Class of 2004 celebrated their win with a Beirut barbecue in the courtyard, financed by the cash prize they’d gotten in exchange for giving so much...
Beirut tournaments are just one of the many convincing rationales for giving the requested $10 contribution to Senior Gift??an annual drive that asks seniors to donate to the Harvard College Fund before they graduate. The most convincing is that the cause is good—donations both help students matriculate by channeling money into financial aid, and help improve their experience once they’re here by pouring money into unrestricted funds. I’ve gleaned a lot from my Harvard experience, and I don’t think it?...
...Senior Gift??s recruitment apparatus has two arms: one that pursues donations of a minimum $10, and another that asks for a minimum $250. Like any good fundraising program, Senior Gift grants higher-level donors an honorific—Associates...