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...Cambridge School Committee turned its attention to the dramatic, unabated drop in the number of students attending the Cambridge Public Schools at a special roundtable session for committee members and school officials this past Tuesday. The session was marked by haggling over the accuracy of numbers presented by school officials and disputes over the cause of the decline. But all present agreed that the decline in enrollment is real—not a “temporary dip” as has been asserted in the past—and that steps should be taken to reverse the trend. According...
...senior associate dean and director of degree programs. “It reminded me of a kind of tidal wave and it would lift all of our boats.” Her colleagues valued her presence, and the affection was mutual. “I would drop her off at work in the morning and of course on the outside you would see a woman towing her briefcase on wheels but on the inside was a little girl skipping to school,” her husband Joseph Goodnough said. Known for her devotion to her students, Williamson always made sure...
...Faludi enrolled at Harvard in 1977, just two years after the College abolished its quota on the number of women.“It was still pretty much a male-dominated universe,” Faludi says. “Professors would make comments that would make your jaw drop now.”“Sexual harassment at that point was a fairly new issue to be dealt with on campuses, and she wrote a lot about that,” fellow Crimson editor Susan K. Brown ’81 says. “I came from...
...spent time in a Vietnamese reeducation camp, was found innocent by reason of insanity the following May.And in what appeared to be another act of arson in October, the Margaret Fuller House sustained severe damage.The Phillips Brooks House Association had recruited Harvard students to organize an after-school teenage drop-in program at the Cambridge neighborhood center before the blaze, which opened according to schedule in November. At the time, Lorraine Y. Scott—a member of the House’s board of directors—thought the fires might be part of a planned attack...
...Cambridge School Committee turned its attention to the dramatic, unabated drop in the number of students attending the Cambridge Public Schools at a special roundtable session for committee members and school officials this past Tuesday. The session was marked by haggling over the accuracy of numbers presented by school officials and disputes over the cause of the decline. But all present agreed that the decline in enrollment is real—not a “temporary dip” as has been asserted in the past—and that steps should be taken to reverse the trend. According...