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Founded by two Harvard alumni, the newly-formed Ivy Key SAT preparation company may seem a bit exclusive at first glance. After all, its stated hiring policy is to “only select tutors who have either graduated from or are currently attending an Ivy League school or institution of equal quality.” But founders Chris L. McConnell ’08 and Jae R. Gardner ’07 were determined to assist students lacking financial and academic resources when they created the company in January of 2009. The company has a for-profit private tutoring...
...well. It was great just to get our feet moving.” Indeed both the men and women competed without their best athletes, as none of the team captains hit the course. Senior Chas Gillespie, junior Dan Chenowith and juniors Jamie Olson and Claire Richardson all sat out on Saturday, but the women’s squad proved undaunted, as Harvard dominated the field. Freshman Sammy Silva won the women’s 6k race in 22:35.43, giving her an 18-second margin of victory in her first race for the Crimson. “I think...
...Harvard in the 32nd minute of play, under the leadership of standout co-captain Andre Akpan. The Grand Prairie, Texas native fired an unassisted rocket into the Stags’ net, recording the only goal of the first period standstill. “We battled a team that sat in and defended with a lot of numbers,” Harvard coach Jamie Clark said. “It took us a lot of time to break them down, but we were patient and it paid off.” The real reward for the Crimson came after Akpan?...
...subject of his earlier book, “Mountains Beyond Mountains”] who had an apartment there. Deo told the outlines of his story to my wife, and as we were driving away, my wife told me a fragment of the story that he told her, and it sat in the back of my mind for several years.I was drawn to him, partly. He’s really charming, and there’s an ineffable quality to him—a straight warmth and enthusiasm. And there was a sense of someone who had been wounded. This...
...Lampoon’s first Jewish editors got in a fight with his advisers during the 1950s. The subsequently threatened to have him ad-boarded and expelled. The writer retreated to the castle where he sat holed up with textbooks studying for days (unclear why the need for textbooks). After spending several days in isolation, the writer went to a pet-store to buy 15 rabid dogs. He then went to Lamont Library where he proceeded to paint the book-cases with meat sauce. While the writer chatted up the guard, a friend of his entered the library with...