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The acceptance to Harvard was more of trophy than a real possibility to me. I would have been miserable.

I was promoted associate professor in early 1970 and full professor in October of the same year. I spent the two spring semesters of 1972 and 1974 as visiting professor at Harvard University, giving lectures and directing a research project.

You can always tell a Harvard man -- but you can't tell him very much.

With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.

We need growth and money, not revolutionary ideology. Calderon is very Harvard and that's good. We want a Mexico of the 21st century.

We played against the 18th-ranked team out of maybe 350 Division I programs, so we're talking maybe one of the 20 best teams in the country. Harvard is a very solid and very deep team. We played them tough.

We are making sure that the courses we offer at MITx and HarvardX are quintessential MIT and Harvard courses. They are not watered down. They are not MIT Lite or Harvard Lite. These are hard courses. These are the exact same courses, so the certificate will mean something.

The exercise covered the principal decision-making and communications issues that would face us in a pandemic. The drill emphasized the need for all of us to continue working together to determine and answer some fundamental questions before we are actually faced with them. These included: At what point would we send students and nonessential staff home? How would we care for remaining faculty and staff, and those students who couldn't evacuate? What decisions could be made by Harvard versus state or local officials? Who would make which crucial decisions and how would those decisions be communicated?

I’m not the woman president of Harvard, I’m the president of Harvard.

I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops.

With a hundred and seventy-eight machines to sequence the precise order of the billions of chemicals within a molecule of DNA, B.G.I. produces at least a quarter of the world's genomic data - more than Harvard University, the National Institutes of Health, or any other scientific institution.

We contacted Harvard University, which also has this program in action. They had about five recoveries.

With Dick as a mentor, I decided economics was for me, and I continued by pursuing an economics Ph.D. at Harvard beginning in 1952.

When I went to BET, I was so excited about working for a black-owned company and a company that was in the media business that serves the black community. One thing Harvard Law does is teach you that you can change the world, and I knew I wanted to do that, it was just a question of how.

When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square.

But our main agenda is really to try to integrate the study of Asia here at Harvard and to play as positive a role as we can in this institution.

The reason that we won't see a huge shift in the number of low-income students who are attending Harvard and Yale is that the academic expectations are so high that while there are some students who would qualify, the numbers are not huge.

The recovery and relocation process will take several years, and the press will likely monitor developments. That means people will be thinking about poverty and these poor victims for a while,'' said Wilson, the Harvard professor.

This was the working relationship that President Summers had with the Harvard faculty and the Harvard Corporation, the trustees. The advocacy by presidents from other institutions wouldn't really have had an impact on that.

We spend more to keep a prisoner behind bars each year than it would cost to send them to Harvard Law School.

Virginia played extremely well and we made a bunch of early season mistakes. We will work on those mistakes in practice to get ready for Harvard next weekend.

As it happens, although I was at MIT on the faculty full-time for 18 years and then at Harvard for another 16, so I've always been in full-time academia, I always found it was both beneficial for my research and beneficial for the other work to be involved in the practicing community.

At the Harvard meet, I beat the one-meter champion my freshman year. It's really hard to believe.

Divorce lawyers stay married because they see what happens when you get a divorce. There is a Harvard study that says people who go through a divorce can expect it to wipe out three-quarters of the potential wealth they will create in a lifetime. You should think about that, first and foremost, before you get married.

Following graduation from high school in 1948, I attended Harvard University where I became a physics major. Having grown up in a small town, I found Harvard to be an enormously enriching experience. Students in my class came from all walks of life and from a great variety of geographical locations.

I used to go to a lot of Harvard games and UNH is always one of the most competitive teams.

Seeing as Harvard Pilgrim was the smaller of the three carriers, it was easier for them to grow. They don't have anything to lose.

President Levin leads through building consensus for key issues and initiatives. With respect to President Summers, it is well known that he was charged with moving Harvard in a different direction, to 'renew it' as he himself has stated. With this charge from his Corporation, he felt the best way to proceed was to roll up his sleeves and get to work. Unfortunately, not everyone appreciated this nor wanted the changes he was advocating.

Once we have more or less universal access to broadband, to real high-speed technologies, you'll have people sitting home taking Harvard courses, taking Wharton Business School courses.

They were looking for a Harvard government major to be a lobbyist for the state of Massachusetts. That was the first and best job I ever had.

They're worried about the Harvard trademark, and they seem to be saying I'm diluting it by allowing some of my materials to be used at Concord Law School, Concord University. Curiously, they never said that when I was identified for 20-odd years on Good Morning America as Harvard Law School.

A lot of us, myself included, have had offers from Harvard and Stanford and Berkeley ? this happens all the time.

They don't teach the "Wal-Mart Way" at Harvard Business School!

They didn't want to leave. I think of all the Harvard teams that have been extremely close, this was one of those teams.

They're like the perfect Harvard MBA case study: All of their charts go up and to the right. We went right after him, and he killed us -- and I say that with the utmost respect.

They're both good skating teams who do a lot of the little things really well. It should be a great game. It's hard to say who has the edge but, in my mind, Harvard is the hottest team right now.

It is quite gratifying to see Harvard is going for a solution to a problem that will be remembered 100 years from now.

It's a great loss for Harvard and a great gain for Yale. I came to Harvard in part because of him. He's a wonderful guy and a great scientist.

I told her not to look at her college basketball career, but at her earning power when she got out, ... She went to Harvard and is Harvard's second-leading scorer in its history. They made it to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen, which is good for an Ivy League school.

It really is a remarkable collection. Because Harvard began collecting so early, on so many levels, it can trace the full range of Degas' artistic interests in a way that few other museums can match.

I took a course at Harvard with Delmore Schwartz, a writing course, and there were about 30 of us... I don't really see vast movements full of wonderful poets all over the place.

For a university with global aspirations, it is critical that Harvard have a strong program on Islam that is worldwide and interdisciplinary in scope.

The benefit of rich families putting their child through Harvard is always going to exist. But it's quite evident that there are 700 million peasants in China who are never going to go to Harvard.

Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.

It's a matter of the heart... I take teaching at Harvard very seriously and supervision of my students very seriously. Harvard should have a bona fide commitment to me.

It's very hard for adults to change their personality, and Harvard needs a personality who can get all the faculty and schools to work together for the good of the university.

I want to go to Harvard and try out for the hockey team.

Serious drama in a significant degree began at Harvard in the 1880s. In 1881, the Cercle Francais initiated the annual French play, and shortly afterwards the German and Spanish clubs added their productions.

Evolutionary psychology has often been a field whose most prominent practitioners get embroiled in controversy - witness the 2010 case of Harvard professor Marc Hauser, whose graduate students came forward to say he'd been faking evidence for years.

I made my lifelong dream of attending Harvard University a reality when I realized someone has to do it, why not me? Why not YOU?

In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top law firms.

In 1969, John Iliopoulos and Luciano Maiani came to Harvard as research fellows. Together, we found the arguments that predicted the existence of charmed hadrons.

In a way, the show is as much about Paul Sachs as it is about Edgar Degas. Indeed, the two are inextricably linked, at least as far as Harvard is concerned.

I moved back to Boston and joined some of my Harvard classmates at Bain & Co. I quickly realized I enjoyed business.

In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.

If you want to have something to say about the voice or vision of a film, go to Harvard Business School. Become a Studio Exec. But don't become a writer. Or director, for that matter.

I read a study from Harvard that said for the brain to memorize muscle movement, it needed time to sink in. In the practice field, you can control the environment and focus everything on what you're doing.

California could become the global center for stem cell research with that kind of investment and the talent that's there. But within Harvard alone, we have as many outstanding scientists as arguably all of California. I think many of us are envious of the resources in California, but we're doing our best to organize and effort around somewhat more modest funding.

Howard is still a great school. But many of the great faculty members that would be at Howard today are now at Harvard and Yale and Princeton. All this comes as a consequence of affirmative action and the admissions policies that encouraged blacks to enroll in the Ivy League schools.

The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.

I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times.

If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard.

There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.

I want to make as much of a contribution as I can, to Harvard, to higher education and hopefully, to education around the world.

A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.

If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.

If I had as many love affairs as you have given me credit for, I'd now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School.

I came home from school one day, and there was a phone call for me. And I picked up the phone. They said, 'This is the Harvard Admissions Department. We'd like to let you know that you're accepted in the freshman class.' And I said, 'Come on, who is this really?'

I'd say Harvard graduates leave here with a sense of the possible and the limit - and a sense that there are no limits to what humans can do and that you can always be pushing, whatever limit you think might be there.

I doubt he'll fit the Harvard stereotype, but will be a refreshing addition there.

I chose the name Langdon for a combination of reasons. The name first occurred to me as a tribute to one of my favorite artists, John Langdon, who not entirely coincidentally is a passionate art-lover and a teacher like Robert Langdon. I also like the way his name sounds; all of my heroes have two syllabus names for reasons of rhythm. In addition, the name Langdon is an old New England family name that carries with it an air of erudition and academia, which works nicely for a Harvard professor.

I've lectured at Stanford, Princeton & Harvard to name a few... I just might be smarter than YOU

He can communicate with all different people, whether you're a Harvard graduate or whether you were brought up in the inner city. He's honest and straightforward and can relate to kids. That's what kids want today, to be honest and straightforward.

He approached her with what appeared to be a firearm. The woman fought him off. Turned out, it was a toy gun -- she thought it was a toy gun -- and they had a struggle in the street. He tried grabbing her. She screamed for help and a Harvard University employee came to her assistance, called police.

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back.

The two-way flow of traffic between India and Harvard is going to be much bigger in the next 5-10 years.

You don't have to go to Harvard to figure out that the Big East is the best league in the country. You don't have to be a genius. A dummy like me can figure that out. When I look at my coach of the year candidates, Jamie Dixon is in my top five. Jamie has done a fantastic job. He has lost some heartbreakers on the road, but that's because winning on the road in the Big East is so difficult. They've been able to win at home. And that's the key when you play in a tough league. You better win your home games.

The Harvard Crimson did such a good job defending me when I was in trouble, I have full confidence that it can defend the institutional principles of the Ivy League.

The general public doesn't expect romance authors to be Harvard graduates. Which is funny, because there are actually quite a lot of us. But this disconnect means that journalists see me as an interesting story. The tricky part is making sure they understand that there are many, many talented writers who don't have 'fancy' educations.

Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.

Harvard just took that option out of our hands. He is truly on his own now.

When hiring, mix Harvard Nerds with Chicago Improvisers and stir.

At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs.

Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed.

Affirmative action makes employers think, 'Black woman nuclear physicist? Hah! Probably let her into Harvard 'cause they were looking for a twofer. Bet she got C's in high school practical math. Give her a job in personnel.'

I hope I am proven wrong about John Roberts. I have been proven wrong before on my confirmation votes. I regret my vote to confirm Justice Scalia, even though he, too, like Judge Roberts was a nice person and a very smart Harvard lawyer.

Harvard gave me an education, but Junior Chamber gave me an education for life.