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Word: attractions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also said that there are "other ways" Harvard can help Cambridge, citing the University's efforts to improve local schools and attract industry to the city...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Taxing Proposition | 3/14/1981 | See Source »

...regularly travel from as far as Brown University to participate in the program. In addition, Harvard selects about 20 "research appointees" each year. Because of Widener's extensive and well catalogued Russian and Soviet collection (which includes such gems as the Trotsky archive), the center has been able to attract top scholars and speakers from throughout the United States and Europe...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Where the Volga Meets the Charles | 3/13/1981 | See Source »

Philadelphia School Project Evaluator Arnold Escourt notes that parents are naturally more cooperative because they deliberately chose the school. Principal Crumley also has an advantage in running a small school and in having been able to attract a new teaching staff when he started the experiment; he thus avoided problems with seniority and mediocrity that plague many schools. But at a time when so many elementary school students are failing the new minimum-competency tests-one-third of the primary-graders in Washington, D.C., for example-the Fitler experience has application far beyond Philadelphia. As Fitler Parent Carmela Dunyan puts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Trying the Old-Fashioned Way | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

Sommaripa urged the audience to sign a petition for the halt of the nuclear weapons race, saying, "one thousand signatures will attract the representatives' attention: ten thousand will probably change that representative's mind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Panel Stresses Danger of Arms Race | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...must somehow be included in the academic mains tream of Harvard. I can envision a course titled "Impactful Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court" taught by Professor Archibald Cox. Surely such a course would include the Dred Scott Case, Pleasy vs Forguson, Brown vs Topoka, etc. It would also attract students from the entire community...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Race at Harvard | 3/7/1981 | See Source »

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