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Prestige is another lasting influence of the Kennedy Administration on Harvard. The president focused national attention on his alma mater by tapping several graduates and professors for advisory positions. "What Kennedy did was make Harvard fashionable as this great breeding ground for people to go down to Washington and serve in major capacities," says Alan Brinkley, Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History...
...dispatched telegrams to the Democratic and Republican National Committees inviting candidates to participate in on-air debates some time next year. Broadcasters maintain that they will be able to bring greater flair to staging the encounters than the league was able to do. Says CBS Senior Vice President Gene Mater: "We can do a better job. Communications is our business...
Villanueva was replaced by Rob Steinberg, a sophomore who attended Villanueva's Los Angeles alma mater, Palisades High School...
...episode most indicative of the relative progressive nature of the two schools is the decision to establish the House Plan at Harvard in 1928, followed shortly by the Residential College system at Yale. Edward S. Harkness (Yale Class of 1897) first proposed the mini-college idea to his alma mater in 1926, and promised the necessary funds. He met with agonizing debate and indecision. Two years later he was frustrated enough to make a jaunt up to Cambridge to offer a similar proposal to President A. Lawrence Lowell (Harvard Class of 1877). "It took Mr. Lowell about 10 seconds...
Bagels seem to be the thing to order in Mater, the only House which has a variety spanning whole wheat and sesame seed. To add to their repertoire of hamburgers and grilled cheese, owners hope to acquire a freezer and blender for frappes...