Word: heraldic
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...what coach Dave Fish ’72 often characterized as a case of post-finals period rust, the Crimson opened the spring season with a three-game losing streak that seemed to herald a repeat of last year’s dismal outcome...
...Marquand ‘15, the film emphasized the importance of Harvard’s history in encouraging alumni to safeguard its financial future. On April 12, 1958 “To the Age that is Waiting” debuted on Boston television, according to the Boston Sunday Herald...
...broke new ground again when an hour-long commercial entitled “Case for the College,” read by Pusey, hit the radio airwaves in March of 1958. According to the Boston Sunday Herald, this marked the first time that a college had run a commercial to solicit funds. In addition to being broadcast nationwide, the piece was carried by stations in Canada, Ecuador, Korea, the United Kingdom, China and beyond...
...gifts by December 15, 1956 and an additional $1.6 million in unpaid pledges. By June 11, 1959—Commencement Day for the Class of 1959—the program had raised only $61 million, or 74 percent, of its goal of $82.5 million, according to the Boston Sunday Herald. A $2.5 million donation from Harold S. Vanderbilt on January 3, 1960 finally pushed the campaign to its goal, bringing the first modern college fundraising campaign to a close...
...move up the ranks of the Taliban," says a Western Intelligence official in southern Afghanistan. A possible successor, Ahktar Mohammed Osmani, was killed in December in an air strike. Another, Obaidullah Akhund, was captured in February. But it remains to be seen whether Dadullah's death will herald a breakdown of the Taliban's command-and-control structure, or inspire his followers to avenge him and close ranks by intensifying their own deadly efforts...