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...enjoyed superb advising throughout but, heavily embroiled in the music scene at Harvard, rarely focused determinedly upon my studies. Having married at the end of my junior year and then returned to school half-heartedly a couple of times, soon to recognize my mistake and withdraw each time before the end of the term, I was shepherded through these tragicomic ebbs and flows by the legendary John Marquand, the late senior tutor of Dudley House widely considered one of the finest advisors of all time. Fixing me with a steely glint softened by warmth and compassion, he said gently...
...sense that a student did not seem to have the capacity to graduate. Students who fail are asked to leave for a spell because they are not concentrating, not because they cannot succeed. Over the last eight years I have known a number of students asked to withdraw for a year for failure to meet minimum requirements, but I have never known anyone devoting his or her best to the books to meet such a fate...
...issue letters reaffirming their commitment to diversity. The demand comes in light of their membership in the Augusta National Golf Club, which came under criticism this fall for its policy excluding women from membership, and coincides with several national groups’ calls for Augusta members to withdraw from the club...
...Crimson’s top four starting pitchers from 2002 are all gone, three to graduation and the fourth—would-be-junior Marc Hordon—to a season-ending shoulder injury that forced him to withdraw from Harvard to maintain full eligibility...
...from Navy diver Robert Stethem - his murdered body was thrown out the window of a TWA airliner in a 1985 hijacking in Beirut - and CIA station chief William Buckley the same year, to 241 killed in a 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine headquarters that led Ronald Reagan to withdraw U.S. forces from Lebanon. The group was also blamed for lethal 1990s bombings of Jewish targets in Argentina - showing that its deadly reach extends far beyond the Mideast...