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...They had Coach Kingston, a man “who appeared to have started to play in rugby when he was in the womb,” according to rugger Giles A. Birch ’85.According to Kingston, coaching a rugby team was a natural extension of his love for the game.“In summer of 1981, I was wandering down their athletic facility and bumped into a group of guys who were rugby players,” Kingston recalls. “That was the beginning of it.”Under Kingston?...
...that is remembered of any of us is the footnote written by a history concentrator who is trying to win a Hoopes Prize by digging up obscure minutiae. While we pass through and change, the college does not. The dorms will be filled with other students having their own love triangles. The UC will continue to amend its constitution. The faculty will reach a new revolutionary way to teach general education that looks like all the past programs. The senior thesis writers will escape to the same bars for the same drinks. And the Lowell House bells, though new, will...
...little non-financial support from the University, which is great in the sense that Harvard students get to take on jobs like directing and producing that at other universities would be afterthoughts for professionals. It would be easier, yes, but less enriching if Harvard worked that way. If you love it, if you’re focused and energetic and talented and tireless, then there is no better feeling than the one you get just before the lights come up on opening night. But I wasn’t any of those things, which I realized in the spring...
...upper room of 14 Plympton Street: “intellectual elitism.” That moment of truth occasioned for me a clarity that I did not recover until I sat down to write this word of farewell to a community that, with all its contradictions, I love with the love of family...
...leave Harvard, I leave with the love of a child for his imperfect parent, with the knowledge that the parent’s virtues and imperfections are the foundations of my own. I love Harvard, will always love Harvard, and will fight—from near or far-- to make it a better place. And I thank you--my teachers, students, colleagues, and staff--for being the trellis of my growth and the flowering vines on my trellis...