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...excommunicate you,” he wrote. “While listening to your boy, I kept hoping that mine who is now 13 will turn out to be an equally consequential citizen.”Robert W. “Worth” Bingham, Bingham’s older brother, had been selected to take the reins of the newspaper, and Bingham had long looked up to him. But, in a line of tragedies for the family, Worth died on vacation in Cape Cod when a surfboard stuffed through the backseat windows jackknifed his neck. After the turn...
...requirements in biology, chemistry, and physics while giving them the most flexibility in choosing electives. BREATHING NEW LIFE INTO SCIENCE As the 2005-2006 academic year came to a close, the Faculty Council voted to revamp the life science concentrations, adding five new concentrations and removing two of the older ones. This move splits the existing Biochemical Sciences and Biology concentrations into four new concentrations—Chemical and Physical Biology, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Neurobiology, and Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. The Biological Anthropology track in the Anthropology department will remain as it is, but a new concentration in Human...
...under Cleary, also played in an Olympic hockey team, but said “that would probably be where the comparison ends.”“He was such a great Olympian,” he says. “I have talked to a number of older gentlemen who still refer to him as the greatest American hockey player ever.”Cleary came to Harvard as a student in 1952 and quickly started breaking records on the ice. Many of them he still holds to this day, including most goals in a season, longest goal...
...WAR’ FOR FREEDOMFor the Class of 1956, most members had come to accept parietals as a way of life, marking a shift from the post-World War II period. War veterans who returned to Harvard as undergraduates, hardened from years of fighting, were much older and less likely to accept the parietal rules, according to Morton Keller, co-author of “Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America’s University.” But the matriculation of the Class of 1956 saw a more compliant student body. “The tone...
...family, where I wanted to live, being with men at the first time…many, many things,” she explains. For the next three years, Valentine lived off-campus, first with her family in Boston and then with her older sister in Cambridge.Valentine says that an open writing course with playwright and English professor William Alfred solidified her love of poetry.“I was at somewhat of a crossroads in my life,” Valentine remembers. “His encouragement was very important to me.”Valentine says that Alfred, simply...