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...place you made that Xerox. You came to college from your hometown, met someone, married, and then replicated the home you’d come from—perhaps a little blurrily. John Updike ’54 married in his senior year here. In 1960, the median age of women at marriage was about 20; for men, it was about...
...though, we marry later—according to the Census Bureau, at last count, the median age at marriage was 25 for women and almost 27 for men. We do not replicate our families so quickly, but neither do we return, most of us, to the homes we’ve left...
...regardless of how the University chooses to spend its gains this year, Harvard’s in-house management team deserves thanks for outperforming the median university return by over seventeen percent. No increase in endowment payouts would be possible without their expert management...
Jack R. Meyer, the management company president, said he knew of no other large endowment which had performed as well as Harvard’s in fiscal 2004. He said preliminary figures indicated Harvard had far surpassed, by 17.1 percent, the median return among the nation’s 25 largest university endowments...
...carefree abandon of these older riders, they tend to forsake the noise and vibration of sports bikes. Data from JD Powers show that the median age for sports-bike owners is 30, but for cruisers and touring bikes, which offer more comfort and luxury, it is 45 and 50, respectively. Older riders opt for add-ons besides a comfy seat and a windshield, like a CD player with wraparound stereo and an intercom to keep the couple connected on the bike...