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Three-hundred and forty-nine years later, the Latin Oration is one of the few Commencement traditions that has held, as Harvard administrators are still eager to impress the audience with students' skills...
...next six years, he did his best to impress. He was editor of his high school paper. He made the academic decathlon team. He became an activist in his community. He won nearly every award his high school had to offer...
...Radcliffe's cheerful estimate of the money we spend each week compliments our capacity to impress on a shoestring," they wrote. The 'Cliffies ball-parked the budget at $21. In fact, it was half that...
Despite the rigorous academic schedule, Abeles continued to impress coaches and wreak havoc on opposing pitchers during her sophomore and junior seasons. She earned a coveted spot on the First Team All-Ivy League as a sophomore and led the Crimson in seven different offensive categories, including batting average, hits, doubles, triples, RBIs, slugging percentage, and homeruns...
...Roth's new look meant to impress the Swedish Academy? Who knows, but who could blame him? Roth has already won every major book award, and literary-conspiracy theorists could point out that a wider world view may have helped Saul Bellow win a Nobel Prize in 1976. Like Bellow's Mr. Sammler's Planet and The Dean's December, The Human Stain makes a good case for the decline of humanism, civility and common sense. Roth also gives us a bleak look beneath the surface of the nation's current self-satisfaction. Silk's off-campus troubles include...