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...nowhere to attend in the fall. Some waitlisted students use the time to take action. Sam Davison, a senior at Highland Park High School in Texas, was waitlisted at his first choice, Vanderbilt University. To boost his chances, Davison had a family friend who is an alumnus write a letter on his behalf. And he is in touch with a Vanderbilt admissions officer. Vanderbilt, which waitlisted 25% more applicants this year than last for a class of 1,550, lets its reps speak frankly with students about their chances. "We try to humanize this experience," says Douglas Christiansen, dean...
...19th century jurist Timothy Walker, Class of 1826, devoted his 1851 Phi Beta Kappa speech to mocking abolitionists. And after Daniel Webster, a the legendary Massachusetts senator, gave a speech endorsing the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, Harvard President Jared Sparks, Class of 1815, and several professors signed a letter to the editor of the Boston Courier to show their support, according to the book “Veritas,” a history of Harvard by Andrew B. Schlesinger...
...hours of greatest strain, University President Drew G. Faust often gazes, letting herself occasionally wonder...wonder if they’d...be proud of her...(sniffle). 8. A guillotine, for use in extreme Ad Board cases. 9. The little-known Harvard School of Colonial Management. 10. A letter from former University President James B. Conant ’14 that begins, “My Dear Sir Martian Overload President...” 11. Henry A. Kissinger ’50, just sitting quietly in a rocking chair. 12. Supply of tequila for upcoming “Presidential Thirsty Thursday...
...Both professors were in favor of it,” Toor said. In fact, the professor of the computer science course, David J. Malan, wrote a letter to the Ad Board arguing that because Ec1010a and CS 50 are “gateway courses,” not allowing simultaneous enrollment can “impede one’s potential advancement to higher-level courses...
...Harvard’s Puritan forefathers, their putatively misguided attempt to search for “truth” rather than “truths”—as well as the presumption of James Conant, who presided over Harvard in the mid 1900s, to address his letter to his 21st-century successor as “My dear Sir”—Faust appeared to discard the tradition of the university’s founders as unfit according to current standards...