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...tribute to her alma mater, Wilson plans to carry a DEAS flag with her into space and deliver it back to Harvard after the mission, fellow NASA Astronaut Sandra H. Magnus said...
...anyone with the slightest contact with our alma mater, “The History Boys” becomes much more than a 2004 London West End hit transplanted onto Broadway. In the context of the Thatcherite eighties, the play focuses around eight students from a north English grammar school seeking admission to the world’s most exclusive and competitive educational institutions. Pressured from the school administration and attracted primarily by the behemoth of reputation, they linger at school beyond their final examinations for extra classes in preparation for admission interviews and papers...
...into older folks' connection with their alma mater, a few schools have gone so far as to offer burial plots on campus. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for example, is the final resting place of alum Charles Kuralt, the former CBS newsman. But maybe that's taking things a step too far--for now, anyway. Boomers are only turning 60. They're not thinking about dying. They're thinking about reliving what many regard as the best years of their life. Who knows? Maybe that's what the years ahead will turn...
...Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. ’76 “was and is romantic about all things Harvard,” his Harvard Law School (HLS) friend, Donald S. Scherer, told The Crimson last summer. But Roberts’ amorous attitude toward his alma mater did not overpower his legal judgment in a high-profile case on campus military recruitment this past year.Roberts’ opinion in Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR) upheld the constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment, which forces universities to give military recruiters equal access to campuses...
...fell out the window of an apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Participants in the 4.2-mile race were invited to make contributions to the Paul F. Gilligan III Foundation, which awards a $2,500 scholarship to a graduating senior at Gilligan’s alma mater, Haddon Township High School in New Jersey. The foundation will also annually award a fellowship in his honor of $2,500 for purposeful summer study or travel to a resident of Eliot, where Gilligan lived during his time at the College. Vikram Viswanathan ’06 was selected...