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...It’s high time that his alma mater finally hands over his diploma,” said Paul J. Finnegan ’75, the outgoing president of the Harvard Alumni Association...
...Renaissance historian Bernard Berenson, Class of 1887, bequeathed his Italian estate at Villa I Tatti and library collections to his alma mater. The villa now houses the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy, as well as Berenson’s 130,000 volumes and more than 300,000 photographs...
...hand, University officials argue that “legacy admissions are integral to the kind of community that any private educational institution is,” as then-President Lawrence H. Summers phrased the party line. According to this logic, alumni are more likely to contribute to their alma mater (financially and otherwise) if their children are admitted to Harvard. For a long time, I myself found this argument compelling. My parents are not Harvard degree-holders, but I have benefited from scholarship funds established by alumni whose progeny matriculated here. Perhaps those alums wouldn’t have donated...
...first half of the 20th century.” The legacy “feather,” then, is a public-relations blunder of Summers-esque proportions. It casts a shadow upon Harvard’s sincere commitment to meritocracy. Why would alumni want to see their alma mater dragged through the mud on account of a policy with such marginal practical benefit...
...marginally improve their children’s admissions odds. Today I’ll toss my cap into the air and join the ranks of Harvard alumni—and I too will take offense at the University’s underestimation of my commitment to my alma mater. I can only hope that the University’s top officials—who, after all, are (technically) selected by the alumni—will join in the tossing motion and throw the legacy “feather” to the wind...