Word: abramian
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When at Harvard, Abramian could take classes at the University--where he was enrolled as a "special student"--for a nominal fee of 10 percent of tuition...
...spending every penny he has trying to get the education he was getting originally," says John G. Swomley, one of Abramian's attorneys in the case...
...Abramian has no family in the United States and has not told any of his relatives in Russia that he is homeless. They would wonder, he says, why he bothered to come to America just to be homeless...
Things were different when Abramian first came to the United States, where he hoped to get an education...
With SAT scores in the upper 7th percentile in math and the upper 20th percentile in English, Abramian was accepted to Harvard as a "special student" and took a mix of Extension School and regular Faculty of Arts and Sciences classes. His favorite professors included Theda Skocpol, now professor of government and sociology, and Richard Pipes, a Cold War expert and Baird research professor of history...