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...renovations--the conversion of Briggs Cage--wondered whether we could ever take Reardon and his planners at their word. The department had planned to celebrate the completion of that 2.5 million project at a Basketball season opener last November, in which The Crimson would play President Bok's alma mater, Stanford...
...came to Cambridge for the last time on October 16, 1963, to watch part of the Harvard-Columbia football game and examine several sites for his presidential library, which he wanted to be "closely associated" with his alma mater...
Shirley wanted the much-touted singers of his alma mater to join in the show by singing "Let Poland Be Poland," an anthem which has become the theme song of Solidarity...
...both the technical experise of Harvard fundraisers and, more important, the deep committment of alums to the old Veritas. If it isn't crystal clear now after the more than 300 years of the University's existence, it should be: Harvard graduates are rich, and they like their alma mater. They're even richer than University officials thought in the first place; witness the upping of the Campaign goal from $250-350 million...
Sean's fate seems to be Greeley's fantasy. He is ordained at St. Mary of-the Lake Seminary in Mundelein, the author's alma mater, in 1956, just two years after Greeley was. Greeley remembers being "very cautious, very conservative. I kept all the rules." So does Sean. Assigned to a black parish (unlike Greeley), he works himself to near collapse. A new archbishop sends the exhausted curate off to Rome to study the history of church marital theology, and Sean finds himself on the famous papal birth control commission, where he stubbornly decides to abstain...