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...plus undergraduates to get out of here. The Ivy gates, as exclusive and foreboding as they are to outsiders, often prove more suffocating to those inside, and the administration is doing its best to encourage its undergraduates to forsake Lamont for Latvia and the Coop for Cape Town...
...than thrilling. Close friends of mine asked me quite seriously if going abroad would be worth “missing out on” a semester at Harvard. Several others asked me what harm would be done to my “leadership positions” if I skipped town for seven months. There is genuine fear of studying abroad at Harvard—a fear that no institutional changes or innovative study abroad programs can ameliorate without a marked shift in attitude by Harvard’s own students...
Connie King makes a point of walking at least 10,000 steps a day. That's about five miles - an impressive goal for the 84-year-old, especially in a town comprising only 10 acres. Eight years ago, Locke, California (population 80) had been on the brink of extinction. Bad plumbing and teetering, century-old shacks prompted the county to condemn the town, located 30 miles south of Sacramento...
Today, the capacity of the historical building overlooking the college town, where the baroque and mid-20th-century concrete stand in a jarring mix, has been downsized considerably. And the experiments within its walls are of a very different nature...
...Hanzich’s roommate throughout his time at Harvard, John W. Scott ’06, wrote in an e-mail that his roommate encouraged Scott, “a boy from a small town in South Carolina,” to “dream on a global scale,” in hopes of changing the world for the better...