Word: honoring
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...executive director of the Ivy League athletic conference, Orleans was not merely well meaning in his wariness of the potential encroachment of athletics into university priorities—most notably his opposition to participation in the national football postseason—but he was also right. In order to honor Orleans’s legacy, University President Drew G. Faust and the committee charged with finding his successor should choose a director who believes just as strongly in the unequivocal precedence of education over athletics. As Faust’s predecessor Derek C. Bok told the New York Times...
...well as a bid for the NCAA Championships in two weeks.“It’s nice to have that title,” Stanton said of Christensen’s first-place finish. “It was also nice that they gave an award in honor of our coach who passed away last year, Paul Turner.”Former Harvard track and field coach Frank Haggerty was on hand to award Christensen the first Paul Turner High Jump Award. In the field events that took place primarily on Saturday, the Harvard squad had a tough...
...While entertaining the packed Beren Hall at Hillel, Reiss revealed that half of the show’s writers are Harvard graduates. “People in Hollywood call us the Harvard mafia,” Reiss said. “At least the mafia has a code of honor.”In keeping with the rest of his speech, Reiss didn’t hold back from poking fun at his old stomping grounds. “Harvard has produced lots of funny people: Conan O’Brien [’85]...Henry Kissinger...
...underground. Sellars’ once revolutionary use of the Adams pool doesn’t seem so novel anymore. It’s now an established venue, like the Loeb or Agassiz.Yet for students like Jacoby, much of this is irrelevant.“Whatever an indie badge-of-honor is, I don’t think the Press is much interested in keeping it,” Jacoby says. “We’re just happy when people are down there learning and printing. That’s really all there...
...question—who among them is worthy of the honor...