Word: assisters
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...College's underlying assumption, on which the Board operates, is as follows. Once a student has been admitted by the Admissions Committee, all of the officers of the College, including the members of the Administrative Board, have a responsibility to seek to assist that student to graduate. Occasionally it is helpful to ask a student to leave the college for a while, if that student is experiencing successive academic failure or difficulty living within the College's rules of behavior. Most often, however, a far more minor adjustment in a student's circumstances is all that is required to guide...
None of this should be surprising: Harvard is notoriously good at calling on its alumni in times of need. What is surprising is that radio networks were moved to assist it so enthusiastically. Harvard paid for the original March 28 broadcast on CBS, but the NBC rebroadcast on April 29 was "an unpaid-public service program." The fundraising plea, so flimsily masked as an argument for American colleges in general, fooled a national radio network. Why? The $82.5 million drive was something of a news event. It was unprecedented for a college or for any public institution, explains Communications Director...
...that-calf. . . I have the sincere satisfaction of knowing that he will some day grace a platter-perhaps my very own . . . Calves are like men, some have sense-and some have not. Evidently, he has not as he can never find his meals unless someone is kind enough to assist him. Even then he's ungrateful, as behold what he did to me. I only grabbed his tail and made a wild grab for his ear in order to guide him around properly when he stuck his head between my legs, backed me into the center...
...before the crime spree began, and that the trial which ended in a life sentence was highlighted by police perjury and coaching of witnesses by the prosecutor. Public contribution to a special fund will help defray the cost of defending the men (Williams is about to be tried), and assist in the fight to overturn Geter's sentence...
What caught everyone's attention last week, however, was not his timely checking or his clutch shot-blocking but his scoring. In Friday's game, Olson scored the tying goal against UNH netminder Todd Pearson, who had been stonewalling the Crimson all evening. He then was credited with an assist for the go-ahead goal, and ended Harvard's three-minute scoring spree with another tally...