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...classmates and Janice H. Hammond, the Philips professor and senior associate dean, Kremer led a candy fundraiser for Valentine’s Day and hosted an online auction for ALS research last spring.Kremer and Boaz aimed to raise $100,000 from these endeavors—an unprecedented amount for section fundraisers. They exceeded even their own expectations, raising $150,000. “I think that Avi and [his classmates] show what a fairly small group of human beings can do when they really get focused on a problem, when people are working together rather than at odds together...
...than my fair share of cynicism and disdain. Bitter, acerbic, jaded, I would sweep my eyes from brick to branch disappointed and disaffected with certain elements of my education. “This is the best school in the world?” I would think after a Shakespeare section with a foreign teaching fellow who had hardly mastered conversational English, let alone the ability to express the rich and intricate arrangements of the great playwright. I’ve shivered in snow, rain, and even the occasional burst of sunshine after sitting through mind-numbing physics labs where menial...
...their grades and their scores on an annual writing competition, a process designed to preserve absolute objectivity.But the 1981 editors felt it necessary for their admission policy to take into account the underrepresentation of minorities and women. Under their modified plan, the top four students in each first-year section would still be elected to the Review, but the fifth spot would be reserved for the top-scoring minority student among the top 25, and if no such minority student existed, the fifth spot would go to the woman with the highest grades.Two days after the adoption of this policy...
...Good listening is not always in big supply in a Harvard section, and he really was a good listener,” he says. “That also makes him a good reporter...
...Crimson? It’s only five, not including Massachusetts, but that doesn’t convey the difference between driving to New York City (manageable) and Ithaca (excruciating). The numbers game begins to break down. The latest time I left The Crimson after producing the Monday sports section? 7:30 a.m.—I think, because I wasn’t really thinking coherently at that point. Consecutive hours spent toiling in the windowless, air-conditioned basement? Probably upwards of 17, and if it’s more I don’t want to know...