Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Spanish and English are my natural languages," Rodriguez says. "I studied Russian for the last four years, including an intensive summer in Moscow the spring of my junior year...
...Marcy Benstock '63, a professional organizer credited with stopping New York City's Westway development, says she grew interested in politics only after graduation. "When I was at Radcliffe I was apolitical," she says. "I was an English major...
Harvard has long had an important influence on the city that surrounds it. In fact, when the University was founded in the early settlement of Newtowne, the town changed its name to Cambridge in honor of the English university Harvard hoped to emulate. Three hundred fifty-two years later, the University, as the city's largest employer and its biggest landlord, still plays a major role in shaping the surrounding community...
...only reason why graduate students do not use resources like the Danforth Center. "I have seen graduate students, usually for financial reasons, who get so bogged down with teaching that they don't do a very good job at teaching," says Amy Boesky '81, a graduate student in English...
Kenan Professor of English and American Literature and Language Helen H. Vendler, who is working to increase minority interest in graduate schools, says Harvard has a well-qualified body of minority undergraduates but needs to persuade them to go into academia. In the past, universities have been reluctant to encourage minority students to enter academia because it is not as stable a profession as law or medicine...