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Champ Lyons Jr. '62, outgoing president of the Harvard Alumni Association, at the HAA meeting on May 4, 1996. Mr. Lyons practices law in Mobile, Alabama.
Some people say going to Harvard proves you're not a damn fool. Where I come from, it doesn't even shift the burden of proof.

The Harvard College class of 1956 made Neil L. Rudenstine, Ph.D. '64, who completed his undergraduate work at Princeton in 1956, an honorary member upon his appointment to the Harvard presidency in 1991. This is excerpted from his note in the Class's fortieth anniversary report.
Since I am an honorary member of the Class of 1956, I had the misfortune to miss your company at Commencement in Cambridge 40 years ago. Thanks to your warm welcome at the Thirty-fifth-and to other circumstances beyond my control-I have managed to attend five consecutive Harvard Baccalaureates and Commencements since then, in order to atone for my initial negligence.

From the memorial minute on the late Gottfried Haberler, Stone professor of international trade emeritus:
His austerity was tempered by eruptions of a sharp witÉ. [H]e once introduced a Harvard colleague, a prodigious compiler of edited volumes, with these words: "You have all read Professor Harris's books, and most of you have written them."

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