the Senior Olympics, the Last Chance Dance, and the Booze Cruise – I mean, the moonlight cruise.

“The entire year has been exciting on campus: Harvard beat Yale for the seventh straight time in football. The men’s basketball team went to the second round of the NCAA tournament for the second straight year. And the Men’s Squash team won national championship.

“Who’d a thunk it: Harvard, an athletic powerhouse! Pretty soon they’ll be asking whether you have academics to go along with your athletic programs.

“My personal connection to Harvard began in 1964, when I graduated from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and matriculated here at the B-School.

“You’re probably asking: How did I ever get into Harvard Business School, given my stellar academic record, where I always made the top halfArt & Craft: Saint Catherine’s Wheel

Who made it: Anonymous. Like most medieval art, there is no signature or attribution on this 12th-13th-century fresco from Cathedral of Notre Dame, Le Puy-en-Velay, France.

Why I love it: Saint Catherine is the patron saint of scholars, spinners, and unmarried women. According to legend, she was a bold and effective apologist for Christianity:

Of noble birth and learned in the sciences, when only eighteen years old, Catherine presented herself to the Emperor Maximinus who was violently persecuting the Christians, upbraided him for his cruelty and endeavoured to prove how iniquitous was the worship of false gods. Astounded at the young girl’s audacity, but incompetent to vie with her in point of learning the tyrant detained her in his palace and summoned numerous scholars whom