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While boards dealing with undergraduates promote their dual emphasis on discipline and education, graduate school boards often have a different mission...
...Apollo 7 was Schirra's third and last mission. Having joined the space agency as one of the original seven astronauts in 1959, the former Korean war combat pilot became the fifth American in space, orbiting the Earth in his tiny Mercury spacecraft in 1962. In 1965, he returned to space aboard Gemini 6 with co-pilot Tom Stafford, rendezvousing with Frank Borman and Jim Lovell, already waiting in orbit in Gemini 7. After those two trips, there wasn't much that rattled Schirra, but agreeing to fly Apollo 7 at all still took some spine...
...January 27, 1967, just 21 months before Schirra's mission took off, the Apollo command module had killed three of his colleagues, when a spark ignited its pure oxygen atmosphere, immolating Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee during a lockdown rehearsal on the pad. Everyone at NASA already knew that the so-far unflown Apollo was a lemon. Not long before the three men died, they sat for a photo session with a model of the command module resting on a table in front of them it. In one of the outtakes never released to the press, they dropped...
...with Allston schools. Furthermore, Harvard already has programs in place to share its educational resources in Cambridge, such as its parternship with the Thomas Gardner Elementary School. Harvard undergraduates are also already involved in tutoring, mentoring, and teaching local school children through organizations like Strong Women, Strong Girls, the Mission Hill after school program, and ExperiMentors run through the Philips Brooks House Association...
...improving bridges over the Charles, and beautifying the area, are ideas that will benefit Harvard as well. Naturally, Harvard cannot, and should not try, to meet every request the community makes. Some proposals, such as providing daycare, are not good matches for Harvard’s resources or its mission as an educational institution. Focusing improving public education in Allston will not only allow Harvard to leverage its resources in the most appropriate way, but will also allow Allston residents to reap benefits from Harvard’s greatest strength...