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...voyage was one of several orientation outings sponsored by the Freshman Dean's Office this week to acquaint Harvard's greenest students with their urban surroundings. After a Sunday night lecture about how to look at a city and what to take advantage of, about 500 freshmen boarded boats the next day for a tour of Boston Harbor and nearby Georges Island, according to Associate Dean of Freshmen W.C. Burriss Young...
Immigrants also acquaint Americans with their foods by cooking for them. Food service is traditionally an entry-level job, requiring few skills and almost no English. Starting as dishwashers, busboys and street food vendors, newcomers gradually manage to save enough money to open simple restaurants. Featuring dishes that are novel and generally inexpensive, immigrants get a foothold that can lead to the sort of success enjoyed by Rocky Aoki, the Japanese tycoon behind the Benihana restaurant chain and frozen-food company...
...Raphaelites venerated those twin totems of Victorian thought: science and religion. Their objections to the popular English art of their time rested, in fact, on both. They were permeated with the belief that nature was the fingerprint of its creator and that studying it was the best way to acquaint oneself with his designs. Ruskin had inveighed against the "unhappy prettiness and sameness" of established English painting, "which cannot but be revolting to any man who has his eyes, even for a measure, open to the divinity of the immortal seal on the common features that he meets...
Bogden says he came to the Ed School in 1981 as a respite from the pressures of his job, and to explore the more theoretical aspects of education. "I wanted to acquaint myself with some more cerebral ideas, to get an exposure to the broad spectrum of issues that the Ed School focused on, like labor relations, computers in education, historical perspectives on education and politics and education...
When charges of racism hit Harvard police as well councilors voted to include University representatives in the group Ball, a member of the Harvard Third World Student Alliance, said yesterday that having a student on the committee "will acquaint Cambridge people with the fact that Harvard students have the same concerns with Harvard and Cambridge police...