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A HARVARD YEARBOOK
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Elizabeth Dole MAT '60, JD '65
The U.S. senator worked in the Law School's Langdell Library before applying for admission. She was a leader of the International Law Club during 1964-65. |
W.E.B. Du Bois AB 1890, AM 1891, PhD 1895
The NAACP founder
was a member of Harvard's Philosophical Club as an undergraduate and
said of his student days, "I was in Harvard, but not of it."
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T.S. Eliot '10
The great modernist poet and critic began his writing career as a Harvard undergraduate, publishing his first poems in the Advocate, which he later edited. |
Ellen Holtz Goodman '63
The newspaper columnist said her class was caught between the 1950s and the rebellious '60s.
"The Radcliffe women didn't have many role models for the lives we have lived. Now, I guess we have become them."
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Al Gore '69
The former vice president
was a politician even at Harvard: a government concentrator, Freshman Council chairman, and a member of the Harvard Undergraduate Council and Young Democrats. |
Fred Gwynne '51
The future star of television's The Munsters acted up at Harvard too, starring in the Hasty Pudding's production of Buddha Knows Best and working at the Lampoon, where he was known as "the funniest man in college."
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Lisa Henson '82
The Columbia Pictures
president was also the first woman president of the Harvard Lampoon.
She put together a Newsweek parody whose cover story was "Nuclear
Arms and Terrific Legs." |
Oliver Wendell Holmes AB 1861, LLB 1866
Before he was Supreme Court Justice, Holmes was Class Poet. He wrote the poem after joining
the army and delivered it during Harvard College's Class Day in 1861.
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