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Drawing from his experience as a Harvard undergraduate and the parent of a current junior, Franken joked about everything from the drug habits of the House residents in the ’70s to the way parents need to boast of their child’s acceptance to Harvard...
Perhaps one of the hardest realities for athletes to accept is their sporting mortality. We all, at some point, fall from the center of attention. We move from the goal lines to the sidelines. The player becomes the coach, or at least the supportive (read: over-involved) parent. As A.E. Housman’s poem “To an Athlete Dying Young” describes: “Smart lad, to slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay/And early though the laurel grows/It withers quicker than the rose...
...President’s receptions moved to the Master’s open houses, the sumptuous spreads became the parent picnic, but the spirit lives in the public wit of the class day speech...
...Being a father is the thing that I’m sort of most proud of,” Franken says. “You have a lot of responsibilities in your life...but your primary responsibility in your life if you have kids is to be a good parent,” he says...
...Haggerty parent Debby K. Irving called the plan “very top down...