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CAMBRIDGE, MA - FEBRUARY 3: Jason Segel holds his Hasty Pudding Pot February 3, 2012 following a press conference at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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BU students are as smart as students at [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] or Harvard [University], but sometimes don’t have the same ambition as you’ll see in students across the river ... My number one focus would be on how to get BU students to be more ambitious in what they’re doing.
I think it's absurd. Do we really need eight guards per gate?
We just want this university to be a better citizen, whether that's in Cambridge or the whole country, in which Harvard graduates are such prominent peopleMore quotes »
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