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...undisputed Grand Old Man of Orthopedics, in his time one of the most prominent orthopedic surgeons in the world. In my time he was wonderful, friendly and wise-a big, smiling, grandfather whose plain Midwestern manners stuck out like the sun among the darker heavenly bodies of the Upper West Side's professorial (read distant, arrogant) medical establishment...
...heartened by the words of Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons ’67, who said last spring that his office is evaluating how to make attending Harvard more affordable for families of incomes between $100,000 and $200,000. Many of these families—upper-middle-class, to be sure—are hard-pressed to make ends meet when it’s time to send multiple children to elite colleges. The College also owes thanks to the University’s central administration for funding HFAI and for committing to support it in future years...
...protagonist, Marian Gilbert, is thirteen at the outset of the book. She is lonely, but only half-aware of that fact. She attends a small girls’ prep school on the Upper East Side, and feels lost in a “fog,” since she doesn’t fit in there. The other eighth graders are wealthier, with society parents and homes on Park Avenue, and they know how to play “prison ball” in gym class...
More than a year after Summers delivered his now-infamous speech examining the under-representation of women in the upper echelons of science and engineering, a female professor of electrical engineering and computer science will help choose Summers’ successor. Susan L. Graham ’64 teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, and she has served on Harvard’s Board of Overseers since...
...students met Omar because they are helping to lay the foundation for his house in the Musicians’ Village, a community of 80 houses being built in the Upper Ninth Ward...