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...part of a land swap deal with Harvard, the Charlesview Board of Directors plans to move residents out of the current structure—which is near Harvard’s long-awaited, and now further postponed, Allston Science Complex—in an effort to further development in the neighborhood. Relocated Charlesview residents are expected to be given space in other yet-to-be constructed, housing units on land in the neighborhood currently owned by the University...
Allston resident Tim McHale proposed a ten-point plan to improve the current design. The proposal included allowing space for backyards in the housing units and moving a McDonald’s to make room for a more attractive plaza on Western Avenue...
...addition to maintaining the current size of GSAS, the letter guarantees that graduate students will receive a 3 percent increase to their current stipends...
...Brandt said that the increase in stipends will help reassure current and prospective students about the financial state of the graduate school. “The rise in stipends will...make Harvard very competitive in our efforts to recruit the most talented students,” Brandt wrote in an e-mail to the Crimson...
...servicemen jobs during the war effort. But grading was at first done manually, an arduous task that undermined standardized testing's goal of speedy mass assessment. It would take until 1936 to develop the first automatic test scanner, a rudimentary computer called the IBM 805. It used electrical current to detect marks made by special pencils on tests, giving rise to the now ubiquitous bubbling-in of answers. (Modern optical scanners opt to use simple No. 2 pencils, as their darker lead is most scanner-friendly...