1 The Class of 1984 included Loretta Lynch, who would later become the first African-American woman to be Attorney General of the United States. 2  In 1990, Barack Obama was elected as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.
Old English cancer spreading sore, cancer (also canceradl), from Latin cancer a crab, later, malignant tumor, from Greek karkinos, which, like the Modern English word, has three meanings: crab, tumor, and the zodiac constellation (late Old English), from PIE root *qarq- to be hard (like the shell of a crab); cf.
Cancer is a medium-sized constellation that is bordered by Gemini to the west, Lynx to the north, Leo Minor to the northeast, Leo to the east, Hydra to the south, and Canis Minor to the southwest. The three-letter abbreviation for the constellation, as adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1922, is 'Cnc'.