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Professor Ronald W. Reagan here. He takes off his Gulf of Sidra admiral's hat, his Nicaragua freedom fighter's cap, his space-shuttle captain's helmet, his tax-and-budget reformer's Homburg, his Philippine democracy cockade--and puts on a mortarboard...
...scholarly tradition, an important footnote: "I would also tell the students that I've enjoyed the job. And some nights you go home feeling ten feet tall I've had a fair sprinkling of them." Mortarboard comes off. Professor departs. The President looks ahead three years, grins, rubs his hands, says, "I wouldn't know how to coast...
soon-to-be alumnus Charlie Marchese went 20-1 in his final three seasons, earning Eastern League Pitcher of the Year honors in 1984. Mortarboard-wearer Jeff Musselman went 21 6 in a Crimson jersey. This season Musselman and Marchese accounted for more than half of Harvard's victories...
Frustrated by the inconveniences wrought by their House renovations, a group of Dunster House seniors recently spearheaded a joke campaign to "put the mortar back in mortarboard." They hung a sign-up sheet in their dining hall asking how many classmates would be willing to go through Commencemment exercises sporting hardhats. About 40 volunteered. If you had to pick one symbol for the Class of 1984's four-year stay in Cambridge, it would have to be a hard...
THIRTY YEARS AGO, my father marched into Harvard Yard, threw his mortarboard into the air, and was welcomed to the company of educated men in a ceremony about which he now remembers close to nothing...