Word: betweeners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In a similar effort to engage House residents,Eck and Austin in Lowell focused their effortsthis year on strengthening ties between thestudent residents that make up the House's LowerCommon Room and the Faculty and affiliates in theSenior Common Room.
As the months dragged on and the answers remained few, however, the fervor was replaced by malaise. Between June 1998 and February of this year, five top Radcliffe officials left the college. When Radcliffe advertised some of their posts as "interim," many saw an institution uncertain about its future form...
"America at the end of the 19th century, as at the end of the 20th, suffered all the symptoms of a social capital deficit. Back then, crime rates were rising; the gap between rich and poor was growing; there was degradation in the cities; people experienced political alienation and sensed...
"At a historical moment when the meaning and functions of the nation-state are undergoing profound transformation, when capital can move freely, but people cannot, an especially important set of questions for lesbian and gay studies is emerging around the relationship between sexuality and citizenship. How is sexuality being shaped...
The differences between international studentsand Americans become striking for admissionsofficers charged with international recruiting.They find themselves explaining the nature of theAmerican liberal arts education, repeating timeand again that Harvard College does not trainstudents for a particular profession, as studentswould expect in their home countries.