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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...start by addressing Upton's concern that the Senior Gift is an attempt to brainwash students into supporting the University out of habit. Rather, it is a campaign to educate seniors about the necessity of alumni contributions and to raise money for our class's first gift to the College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 3/10/1999 | See Source »

...start by addressing Upton's concern that the Senior Gift is an attempt to brainwash students into supporting the University out of habit. Rather, it is a campaign to educate seniors about the necessity of alumni contributions and to raise money for our class's first gift to the College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senior Gift Fund Important | 3/10/1999 | See Source »

...According to Hughes, the SAT is useful in the admissions office's attempt to quantify the over 18,000 high school students who apply to Harvard every year. Grade point averages, because of grade inflation, are not always helpful tools, Hughes added. He said that many high schools do not even release class rank anymore...

Author: By Erica B. Levy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Speaker Debate Fairness of SAT Examination | 3/10/1999 | See Source »

Once they have finished with Phase I, ADAPTwill attempt to tackle the last two piecessimultaneously...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: University Accounting Overhaul Year Behind, Over Budget | 3/9/1999 | See Source »

...course it had to be for a myth painter doing an Apotheosis of Homer. But Ingres brought it into portraiture, most notoriously with his over-the-top portrait of Napoleon (1806) in his imperial coronation robes, as frontal and opulent as a Byzantine god. So weird was this attempt at deification that even David, Ingres's old teacher, found it "incomprehensible"--and it was so much mocked that the touchy Ingres refused to return to France until other paintings had earned him a better reception there, as they presently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Faces of an Epoch | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

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