Word: affords
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...piece of furniture nearly ruined the beginning of freshmen year for Peter M. Conti-Brown ’05. Conti-Brown, who had just arrived at Harvard from his home state, Oklahoma, could only afford to attend Harvard because of the generous financial aid package he had received from the College...
...making sure students can afford to come to Harvard was not HFAI’s only concern. A far more difficult problem would be to make sure that these students would feel comfortable at Harvard where social and cultural differences, stemming from but not limited to economic factors, may abound. And the Horatio Alger-esque myth of students skyrocketing into a world of privilege the moment they enter Harvard’s gates might not prove true for many who come from disadvantaged backgrounds...
Baltazar A. Zavala ’11, who says he can afford to attend Harvard because of help from HFAI, notes, “It’s not really something you talk about when you’re introducing yourself. In fact, it hasn’t even really come up with my roommates.” Zavala, who is from El Paso, Texas, also says he doesn’t see many class differences at Harvard: “Most people here seem like the ones back home,” Zavala says...
...popular, why do you have to buy all her friends? Boyle: “I think it probably has something to do with Ec 10, a class I’ve never taken.” Owings: “Because she has to have some way to afford her dream car.” The correct answers: 1. Paramaribo 2. Lake Baikal 3. Appoggiatura 4. Pig 5./6. How the heck should we know...
When Barnhill graduates this spring, his mother says, there are many people in the neighborhood who would like to be there. They can’t afford the trip; money is tight on the east side of Detroit. But after cheering him on for four years, they want to see him get his diploma...