Word: grads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...looks like an undernourished grad student as he waits for a plane at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. His gray sweater has patches on the elbows; his shoes are scuffed; his ginger hair flops over a pair of steel-framed glasses. He fidgets with a thick pile of papers that contain preliminary sketches for a new portable computer and technical details for silicon chips that will be used in machines of the late 1980s. The tag on his battered black suitcase reads "William H. Gates, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, Microsoft...
Enrollment at the Divinity School has shot up about 40 percent since 1979, helping ease the budget crunch by bringing in more tuition money. But Rupp and other officials say they are sensitive to the fact that the 168-year-old school--the oldest grad school at Harvard--must hustle to keep enrollment rising...
Tuition, at $8300 a year, stands as the lowest of all Harvard's grad schools but the highest for divinity schools in the country. Although the school counts all its pennies everywhere else. It has managed actually to increase the amount of money available each year for financial aid. But because enrollment has increased so much, less aid per student is available than five years...
Crimson Coach Frank McLaughlin also got a chance to do some reminiscing. As a Congressman from South Bend, Brademas represented McLaughlin when the coach was sharpening his coaching skills at Notre Dame. And Muzio recruited McLaughlin when the coach--a Fordham University grad--was sharpening his playing skills at Fordham Prep in the Bronx...
...prices, many feel the unprecedented charge is not in keeping with history. "$20 for a seat at the Yale-Harvard football game? A hard wooden seat with the paint peeling off? At the mercy of the elements and the drunks sitting behind you at the Yale Bowl?" wrote Yale grad David Holahan recently in The New York Times in an article explaining why he would be listening to the radio November...