Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the terms of the gift, the dorm will be named Louise Comstock Hall, in honor of Ada Comstock Notestein, president emerita of Radcliffe. Mrs. Notestein severed as president from 1923 until...
...spies." Uphill and down in seven years, the journeying justice has covered tens of thousands of miles, toured 20 lands and written five books about his travels. Folksy, candid, and inclined to ramble in peculiarly unlawyerlike fashion, Author Douglas has a keen eye for homely detail and an easy gift for projecting his friendly, open-faced curiosity about far-off people and places. Russian Journey is his most interesting book to date and offers a penetrating glimpse of the enigmatic bear which is currently bent on retracting its claws and honeying up the world...
...Class Agents, responsible for the 25th Reunion gift, will be John A. Coyne, Donald French, Robert M. O'Neil, and Steven C. Swett. Toby Citrin will deliver the Oration at Wednesday's Class Day Ceremony, and David Royce will give the less serious Ivy Oration...
...actually have existed at Harvard. If so, he cried for the coach's scalp whenever the varsity lost to Yale, showed up at his local Harvard Club only when football movies were being shown, contributed to his Class Fund only so that good old '98 could raise a larger Gift than '97, looked forward to his Class Reunions as the most easily rationalized binges of his life, and otherwise--unless he happened to think there were too many New Dealers on the Faculty--pretty much forgot about Harvard...
...Morison's words, "the possibility of being one's brother's keeper declines when the family numbers over nine hundred," there is also the consideration that somehow, in the modern world, the members of '28 can no longer get very excited about the prospect of raising a Class Gift larger than than...