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After spending nearly four years at the oldest university in the nation, it took a raggedy auto mechanic’s shirt, once worn by a man named Joe, to teach me the importance of tradition. Like most Harvard students, I was too harried to notice the countless gates bearing inscriptions from the University’s past or to pay much attention to its ivy-covered walls. I trudged on to my next class, my next meeting, my next rehearsal...
...most of my tenure as an executive editor, I trusted their explanations. After all, we rely on Tradition at Harvard—routinely boasting of the oldest this or the first that. It’s the foolproof response for anyone who dares to question the Way Things Are. But as I prepared to pass the shirt on to a new owner, I decided it was time to pinpoint its origin once...
During his teaching career at Harvard, he served as Royall professor of law, the oldest endowed chair at HLS, Williston professor of law and Loeb University professor. An expert in torts, administrative law and constitutional law, Cox retired...
Archibald Cox Jr. was born on May 17, 1912 in Plainfield, N.J. The oldest of seven children, Cox attended St. Paul’s School in Concord...
...secret of this breakup ballad from one of the better albums ever made by a teenager is revealed in tiny notation at the end of the lyric sheet: CHORUS X 2. It's the oldest trick in the pop songbook, but when Lavigne, 19, trembles through the chorus once--"You were everything, everything that I wanted/We were meant to be, supposed to be, but we lost it"--only to emerge stronger at the end of the second go-round, millions of adolescent girls will close their eyes and know they are a few minutes closer to getting over...