Word: amherst
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...AMHERST--The Harvard women's basketball team dropped its third consecutive game, 72-64, last night at the University of Massachusetts. The defeat dips the Crimson record...
...AMHERST--As part of a continuing effort to educate the public about the persecution of Black Ethiopian Jews. Hillel at the University of Massachusetts is organizing a used clothing drive to aid those who succeed in immigrating to Israel...
...AMHERST--The Amherst campus of the University of Massachusetts (UMass) earlier this week enacted a formal procedure for handling sexual harassment cases, resulting from two years of students lobbying for the university to enact a concrete policy...
...just as the space program was beginning to mature--and the same year that John H. Glenn Jr. became the first American to orbit the earth--Hoffman graduated from Scars dale High School. At Amherst College, Hoffman followed his scientific bent, majoring in Astronomy, and graduating first in his class,summa cum laude. Then, without skipping a beat, Hoffman arrived at Harvard to embark on three years of gamma ray research. This work took him as far away as Argentina, where he experimented with a balloon-borne gamma-ray observatory that he designed and built...
Part of that interest propelled the Newton native to go to college five, years after leaving high school. He attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, but that did not keep him on the political sidelines. His extracurricular activities included managing a successful congressional campaign in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a project he characterizes as "worth it, but a bit of a commute...