Word: get
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...choosing committee members, Avery says she "started out trying to get representation from women-oriented groups...
Cabot, Lowell and Weld are as "Harvard" as names can get. A tradition of large donations from Boston bluebloods has made walking through campus feel like a stroll through a New England graveyard...
...Long term studies are the heart of the forestry program, which does not require students to take any classes to get their degree, but instead has them do field research culminating in a thesis...
...Foster, director of the Harvard Forest, says that graduates of the forestry program can go on to earn their Ph.D. or get a job working in conservation for a non-profit group, state or federal agency...
...Education Goals Panel report released last week declaring that the nation is behind schedule in its stated aim to improve schooling, mayors across the country are concluding that you can't learn much or graduate if you don't show up. Thus, more and more cities are taking a get-tough approach to battling poor performance - and arresting kids who play hooky. While the approach is too new to claim major academic victories, it is paying some early dividends. In L.A., for example, an ambitious two-year-old program to arrest truants has produced a 20 percent drop...