Word: advent
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...Roxbury, Mass. neighborhood where they act as counselors for children with limited educational opportunities. The problem was, again, the UC’s resistance towards funding transportation. The new guard of the Financial Committee was unwilling to make an exception for Mission Hill. And when forced, with the advent of lost funds, to leave their charity work behind and become hard-edged lobbyists in front of a financial committee, Mission Hill came to a certain crisis of identity. Could a charity organization possibly rally to compete against the bureaucratic hang-ups of the student government...
...common areas. Stock also said he had hoped a renovation would create space for more faculty-student interaction.“The introduction of the Fine Arts Library was more of a concern than the loss of the economics library,” Stock said, adding that the advent of electronic data reduced the need for economics researchers to venture downstairs for records. But he said he fears that the presence of the art books—which will be accessible to students—will indefinitely shelve renovation plans for the Littauer building. “Our long-awaited...
...seems. When man first daubed himself in mud, dressing to fool the eye was the art of the hunter rather than of the prey. Its use in military defense, according to "Camouflage," an exhibition at London's Imperial War Museum until November, evolved as a result of the advent of long-range precision weaponry. Only in 1915, when the French army established a specialist camouflage unit, did the study of concealment, distortion and deception techniques begin. But it was art, not military science, that led the way. "Armies realized they could put artists' knowledge of form, perspective and color...
...Irish good cheer and a Boston College football player, only to be shut down at four in the morning by campus police threatening “the castle is surrounded.” Now there’s something you don’t hear everyday...Friday saw the advent of every Harvard student’s dream—a “ganzcampus,” or, for those of you not versed in German, an ALL CAMPUS BANGER! Unfortunately, only Advocats, freshmen, and about four Crimson stragglers showed up to rage. Can’t say we?...
...Cricket arrived here in the 19th century, when the Parsi community in Mumbai picked up the game from English settlers. The game soon spread around the subcontinent, crossing religious and caste boundaries as it went. India played its first international game in 1932, and it was popularized with the advent of television and the introduction of one-day matches (in which each side is limited to facing only 300 balls during its turn at bat - as opposed to the traditional five-day test match in which each side bats twice, with no limit on the duration of an inning). After...