Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind of person who has stayed out until 3 a.m. searching for a boy who had run away from home in his neighborhood; the kind of person who once gave a cat to his secretary as a gift, honestly believing she would love it--and then taking it back home with him when she didn't. He is the kind of person who organized, with the rest of the office, to have a care package sent to my dorm room while I stayed up all night to write my thesis. He is one of the kindest people I have ever...
...wanted to be understood; he is one of the easiest people to talk to. On the day the housing officer I worked for in University Hall left to go back to graduate school, I saw her cry as she gave me a goodbye hug and pushed a gift into my hand. Just a few weeks ago, former dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 and I sat on a shuttle bus together. I didn't ever think he would remember my name, but in our conversation he knew everything, even which high school I had gone to and what...
Where will all that money come from? Someone certainly seems to think that seniors have plenty of extra cash sitting around. By June, every student has received at least one mailing from the Senior Class Gift. This fund-raising campaign, organized by seniors to aid the University's general fund, uses an unpleasant if effective method of solicitation. While most seniors are asked to give whatever they can, the gift organizers appeal to a small number of wellheeled students for gifts of $250 or more. How do the organizers know who can give the big bucks? They use an incredibly...
...absolutely has to walk in a cap and gown for Commencement exercises. That's not to say anyone would want to be wearing pink in a sea of solemn, black robes. And when your own classmates are asking you to pledge $10 to the Senior Class Gift so that your house's participation rate will best all the rest, how easy...
Harvard's greatest gift to me, and I believe to each one of us, was the opportunity to realize that I could handle what was thrown in front of me, the realization that each one of us can serve as our own life-pre-servers. While we think we might sink, we have the capability to stay afloat...