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Bryce E. Nelson ’59 took a year to muster the courage to go out for the editorial board of The Crimson...
...medicine with Rosenthal while the two lived together in Thayer. Instead, he recalls Rosenthal’s excellence in academics and in track as a hurdler, and describes Rosenthal as an “extremely good student [who was] very serious about his education.” As Rosenthal took and enjoyed premed courses like Organic Chemistry, he still found it hard to let go of the idea of becoming a teacher. His father was a high school science teacher, and Rosenthal was tempted to follow in his father’s footsteps. But in Rosenthal’s junior...
...alma mater. Harvard students who go to Cuba must be juniors at the time and must have had at least six semesters of Spanish language training. These students are able to travel where few Americans have gone because of an institutionalized license granted by the U.S. Treasury Department. It took 18 months for Harvard to initially obtain the license, which must be renewed every year. In the fall semester of 2008, four Harvard students participated in this program. Christina M. Giordano ’10 was one of them. She said that although there were anti-American and anti-Bush...
...daughter remembered that her father was always very excited about his work and said that he loved working with students.During the years Ostriker served as Princeton’s provost, he oversaw the University’s push to reduce student loans, an achievement he took pride in, according to both Socolow and Ostriker’s daughter.After stepping down from his post in 2001 upon Shirley M. Tilghman’s selection as Princeton’s president, Ostriker returned to Cambridge University to assume the prestigious position of the Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy.He returned...
When Daniel J. Rinehart ’09 proposed to his fiancé Leslie E. Nightingale ’09 last May, his plan did not unfold exactly the way he intended. On their first date their freshman year, Rinehart, a religion concentrator from Northfield, Minn., took Nightingale, a history and literature concentrator from St. Louis, Mo., to the Bunker Hill Monument. So when he decided to ask Nightingale to marry him, that monument seemed like the logical choice for location. This time around, Rinehart decided to take the bus instead of the subway in order to keep the proposal...