Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hours often left him little timefor studying. According to him, this and his poorpreparation for Harvard gave him countlessacademic headaches. Before coming to Harvard hehad dreamt of being a chemical engineer, but hechanged his plans after freshman year. He says hewas competing with students who had already takenadvanced placement math and science courses inhigh school--opportunities his school had notoffered...
...students share scholarly struggles, so, you might assume that the section titled "academics" might be more complete. In fact, only 10 concentrations are represented by photos of 15 of Harvard's most noted professors. Only two of those 15 stars are science professors--so if you studied math, physics or biology, don't waste any time looking for familiar faculty faces...
Ronis, who now lives in North House, was adynamo in high school, snagging avaledictorianship after captaining the math team,being on the debate team, getting straight `A's,'winning a National Merit Scholarship, whileconstantly involved in theater. His firstshow--"which may still be my mother'sfavorite"--was Once Upon a Time on aMattress. He entered Harvard a hesitant butprococious pre-med--taking organic chemistry hisFreshman fall--but a stint in several excitingproductions persuaded him his vocation was thestage...
...tapping salute to George M. Cohan and for the evening gown competition each semi-finalist was escorted in a knockout dress beneath an archway of uplifted Naval Academy sabers and the cadets lucky enough to accompany the lovely ladies wore Good Humor Man ice-cream suits and Remedial Math dropjaw smiles like a bunch of meatheaded Varsity fullbacks strutting arm-in-arm with prospective Homecoming Queens and for the swimsuit competition the camera played fly-on-the-wall in the semi-finalists dressing room and a Miss America of yesteryear wandered from girl-to-girl like a queenbee...
During his dazzling years at Eton and Cambridge, nobody doubted that the very clever boy would build a very clever career. But at what? He was as interested in medieval Latin poetry and Peter Abelard as he was in math and the laws of probability. When he took the civil service exams that led to his first job in the India Office in 1906, his lowest score was in economics. Even after he returned to Cambridge as a don and took to editing the Economic Journal, he was most comfortable among the aesthetes of Bloomsbury. Philosopher Bertrand Russell once referred...