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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps Rudenstine draws his strength of resolve from the experience of his alma mater, Princeton University. The president says that Princeton alumnus James B. Duke once offered the school a large sum if it would take his name...

Author: By Gady A. Epstein, | Title: Psst! Wanna Buy Harvard? | 10/24/1992 | See Source »

...school I attended 25 years ago. Back then, it had 4,000 students and anchored the black Chicago community where I grew up. Today, with enrollment down to only 1,171, there is talk of closing the three-story, 88- year-old brick structure that is the alma mater of such celebrities as Nat King Cole, Sam Cooke and Dinah Washington as well as hundreds of black business and professional leaders. "Although the school is not what it was back in the '60s, it certainly does do a lot for this community," says Lovelace. "A lot of students look upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking Out, Then and Now | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

...This, right after she's seen her entire retinue slaughtered by marauding Hurons. "The whole world's on fire," she tells him later. Cooper was a notoriously bad writer of dialogue, but even he couldn't have written stuff this awful. "I will find you!" Natty assures Cora, "No mater how long it takes, no matter how far, I will find you!" Really, now. Maybe Uncas was lucky to get written...

Author: By Thomas J. Scocca, | Title: EVIL IN HOLLYWOOD | 10/1/1992 | See Source »

...musically and psychologically satisfying as the show was, it was cause for reflection about the sorry state of the current Harvard rock scene. The alma mater of members of such alternative fixtures as Bullet Lavolta, the Lemonheads and Galaxy 500 seems to have a starting paucity of good rock bands at the moment. Only time will tell whether Harvard students will stop blasting "One" by U2 and "November Rain" by Guns 'n' Roses and start playing the interesting, innovative music that put Harvard...

Author: By Daniel J. Sharfstein, | Title: Have We Seen the Last of Harvard's Big Rock Bands? | 9/24/1992 | See Source »

Marquand graduated from Wesleyan University andserved on his alma mater's board of trustees. Helived in Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Secretary Marquand Dead at 52 | 7/28/1992 | See Source »

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