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Unlike Bush's less-than-stellar record at Yale, Ridge earned honors in government here and was known as a serious student. Ridge was also highly decorated in Vietnam, while Bush served in the Texas National Guard, far from military action...
During the summer after her sophomore year, Lang started an SAT tutoring program in Mount Vernon, N.Y., with the goal of reaching less affluent high school students who couldn't afford classes at the major test-prep companies. When she returned to Harvard that fall, she founded a similar program, Get Ready!, in Boston...
...Activism by minority students and ethnic organizations rose significantly this year. But unlike in the late 1960s, students of many backgrounds took on a range of unrelated causes. And their voices were raised less often against the University establishment and more against forces in the wider world...
...Huang suggests the ethnic studies push has encountered less success than the Afro-American studies department because of the two disciplines' different histories...
...Harvard announces that for the first time in six years it has fallen short of projected investment returns from its multibillion-dollar endowment. Overall, Harvard's endowment investments earn 12.2 percent in the last year, seven percentage points less than the goal set by Harvard's money managers...