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Last chances abound for the Class of 2007 in this, the final stretch of their lives as Harvard College students. For a select portion of the class, a last chance at one of undergraduate education’s greatest honors turned out to be their best. In ceremonies to be held today, the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) will acquire 91 new members, increasing the total number of this year’s PBK graduates to 163. Invitations to the honor society are first extended in the spring of every academic class’ junior year, at which...
...April, the Harvard coach was named an assistant coach of the Pan American Games team, a group of young players competing in July against competition from North, Central, and South America. A cancer survivor, Delaney-Smith was also named a co-recipient of the Gilda Radner Award, an honor that goes annually to two women most dedicated to promoting cancer awareness throughout the Boston area.And this season, Delaney-Smith also found time to guide a young Crimson squad from an abysmal nonconference performance to a near-perfect Ivy League season and 10th league championship.Despite Delaney-Smith’s extensive...
...Jeff Witt out with an injured shoulder, the eventual surprise start by Pizzotti was a triumphant comeback in the early stages of the junior’s career as a starter. But as it turns out, it wasn’t even the best comeback of the afternoon. That honor went to the collective Crimson squad, a team that reached deep into its bag of tricks to overcome a 17-point road deficit en route to a nail-biting 35-33 road win over the Mountain Hawks. “There’s going to be adversity at some...
...reading of his works at the W.E.B. DuBois Institute, the nation’s oldest research center dedicated to the study of African-American history and culture. In 2005, Walcott came to the Institute of Politics for an event called “Season of Laureates: Readings in Honor of the 70th Birthday of Wole Soyinka,” cosponsored by the Du Bois Institute...
...asked Graham on his deathbed how you can know if you're going to heaven; Johnson, who invited Graham to the White House within weeks of taking office for an encounter that included both prayer and skinnydipping in the White House pool; even Nixon's ghost, come to honor the man he'd clearly loved, and deeply wounded...