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...propose that lobster advocates look into securing funds from outside sources to sponsor their lobster bash. Harvard has droves of rich alumni looking for creative ways to give back to their alma mater. Perhaps we can capitalize on their penchant for philanthropy. And if the allure of a Lobster Trust doesn’t ultimately prove fruitful, perhaps some business savvy student might secure funds from an ambitious financial institution. Who knows? Next year students at the College might sit down to a delicious clambake dinner at the official Mercer Lobster Night...
...mere number the student-faculty ratio has its uses. The number is not only symbolic of an attitude towards teaching. It is also a significant indicator that potential applicants use to gauge the educational atmosphere of the country’s top schools as they shop for an alma mater. That a decreasing ratio will make Harvard more competitive with its peer institutions is not to be scoffed...
...doesn’t always know why statistical indicators work, which then makes one suspicious about them,” Soifer said. But when the B-School Class of ’65 grad flipped through data from his alma mater, “the numbers just...
...leave from the firm of Dillon, Read & Co. to tour his family's ancestral homeland, Germany. Deeply disturbed by what he saw of Adolf Hitler's rule, he returned home?but not to the world of high finance and private wealth. Instead, he went back to his alma mater, Harvard, to study history, sociology and philosophy: 'There were big issues, big questions, big problems in the world. I wanted to come to terms with them. I couldn't do that making money' ... He is one of the last of a breed of patrician policymakers who, immediately after World...
...Brad can play tough under the basket as well as go out and hit the three point shot,” says Frederick Endy, the athletic director for Unger’s alma mater, Boyertown Area High School. “He can also handle the ball very well...