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Kagan instituted what was known as “pie-day,” an occasion in November for staff to gather, eat pie, and write thank-you cards to one another. She also made a point of remembering staff members’ names—which one staffer said was appreciated at an institution where relationships between faculty and staff are often tinged by elitism...
...each stop, the group left thank-you posters and several red long stem roses—a nod to the 1912 Bread and Roses strike of immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Mass.—to show their respect for University staff...
...rationale is fairly simple. The pen used to sign historic legislation itself becomes a historical artifact. The more pens a President uses, the more thank-you gifts he can offer to those who helped create that piece of history. The White House often engraves the pens, which are then given as keepsakes to key proponents or supporters of the newly signed legislation. When Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, he reportedly used more than 75 pens (video footage can be found here, although camera cutaways make it hard to keep track) and gave one of the first...
...their Facebook-event-heard-round-the-world, tickets for the recent basketball games against Princeton and Penn were in such high demand that students had to register for them online days in advance. (You should check out the group even if it's just to read the moving thank-you note for the crowd’s cheering at the devastatingly close Princeton game. It’s worth...
Even in meeting Jeff Tarr once I know that he is a person of the very best order: a kind man, a good one. That day in Ticknor I wrote my thank-you letter to him happily, if dutifully. His generosity and that of those like him make this school, and its squadrons of alumni, feel like a family. We take care of our own. But I can’t shake the feeling that this notion of money is dirty, as is indebtedness. And sometimes the Harvard family makes it easy to forget that we came from somewhere before...