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...September 18, 1998: South African President and co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize Nelson Mandela spoke in a special ceremony in front of 25,000 in Tercentenary Theatre. He became the third person in Harvard's history to receive an honorary degree in a ceremony not linked to Commencement or a celebration of a University anniversary. "To join George Washington and Winston Churchill as the other recipients of such an award conferred at a specially convened convocation...holds great symbolic significance," Mandela said. "The name of an African is now added to those illustrious leaders of the Western...
Earlier in the ceremony, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III presented two students with the Ames Award, a prize give to two seniors who have displayed leadership and self-reliance...
...sleep in the same bedroom and eat almost every meal together," Miriam says. And while they pursued different academic paths, both have been successful students, making the dean's list all semesters and graduating with honors. Miriam has been inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and won a Hoopes Prize for her thesis...
Arrow, a professor of economics at Stanford University, shared the Nobel Prize for economics...
...underclass student asked me for some advice the day before he left to write a Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller. Clearly, he did not read the surgeon general's warning permanently branded to my head that reads: "Listening to this guy is extraordinarily dumb. He's a little nuts...