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DIED. GEORGE WYLE, 87, creator, along with producer Sherwood Schwartz, of one of TV's most whistleable tunes, The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle, the theme from the popular 1960s sitcom Gilligan's Island; of leukemia; in Tarzana, Calif. He wrote more than 400 other songs, including the Christmas classic The Most Wonderful Time of the Year...
Alexander “Sasha” B. Schwartz ’04, a two-time Putnam Fellow from the suburbs of Philadelphia, came to Harvard for this very reason. “I knew I wanted to come since ninth grade,” Schwartz says. “It has the best undergraduate math in the country...Because the students in the class are at a high level, the students can be taught at a higher level...
It’s also a community building venture. Schwartz, a joint mathematics-computer science concentrator who has done contest math since first grade, said he found contests socially conducive: “It’s a good way to meet people, other kids who like math...
...Math competitions are very much like spelling bees—they’re arbitrary” Schwartz says. “[The Putnam] is just a college version of an arithmetic contest in elementary school...
While some tattoos are the result of a pact between teammates, others follow in the footsteps of seniors on their teams. Alumni bearing Harvard tattoos include Isaiah J. Kacyvenski ’00, a starting linebacker for the Seattle Seahawks, and David Schwartz ’00 who had the Delphic torches emblazoned on his thigh. And with more members of the football team planning to get inked after the completion of Spring Ball, it looks like Harvard tattoos are here to stay...