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...Harvard Senior Robert Cunha. They were also assisted by Reporter-Researchers John Gallagher (Fordham), Val Castronovo (Vassar), Nancy Gibbs (Yale) and Zona Sparks (University of Chicago). Senior Editor Christopher Porterfield, a Yale graduate who edited the cover stories, discounts any talk of brisk competition between Harvard and his alma mater. Says Porterfield: "The Macy's-Gimbels rivalry thing is a big bore. There is more kinship between Harvard and Yale than between Harvard and any other university. In these days when others are challenging our supremacy, Harvard and Yale ought to draw together against the upstarts...
...Society of Educated Men and Women owes its alma mater more than generous financial support...
...capacity crowd of about 18,000 people will gather in Tercentenary Theater at 10 a.m. to hear the Prince, who was invited to Harvard as a graduate and a representative of Cambridge University in England, the alma mater of Harvard's founders...
When the Prince graduated from Cheam at the ageof 13, it was time once more for his parents tofind an appropriate school. Elizabeth and Philipopted to send him to Philip's alma mater,Gordonstoun. The school aimed to provide youngboys with an education that went far beyondacademics, developing character as well as mindand body. Charles earned the lead role in aproduction of Shakespeare's Macbeth and twoyears in a row won the award for physical fitnesswhich his father had inspired. After spending ayear abroad in Australia (Charles was also thefirst member of the royal family to attend aschool...
Helmut W. Schumann '41 pulled out all the stops yesterday to get tickets to events marking his alma mater's 350th birthday. And although not everyone was as successful as Shumann, who told a clerk he endowed a chair, workers at the Holyoke Ticket Center said others tried just as hard to get the tickets they wanted...