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...illegal agricultural material in the bags of passengers filing through Customs. But increased travel and shipping have strained these resources. In the past decade the number of passengers entering the country has grown dramatically, and imports of nursery stock, cut flowers and foliage, particularly for offices, have boomed. "The growth (in the cut- flower industry) has brought new pest potential," says J.F.K.'s insect identifier Doug Odermatt. "Every new variety has its own insects." In fiscal year 1985, Customs inspectors nationwide recorded some 30,000 "insect interceptions" -- evidence of one or more pests in a shipment -- nearly double the rate...
After two full centuries of increasing growth, secularism and financial independence, Harvard remained a small and inadequate school. Its faculty in 1868 numbered scarcely 20, its student body fewer than 500. Its dormitories had no central heat or running water. Its narrow curriculum of required courses involved largely the recitation of memorized texts, many of them in Latin. "No one took Harvard College seriously," said Henry Adams, '58. "It taught little, and that little ill, but it left the mind open, free from bias, ignorant of facts, but docile...
...school's precipitous rise, and the influx of volatile new ideas on the meaning of architecture, bred a peculiar mixture of worldwide fame--and campus controversy. As the University entered a period of rapid institutional growth, Harvard administrators hesitated to abandon the Georgian Revivalist style of the old Yard and the river houses...
Dukakis, who has governed the Commonwealth during a period of tremendous economic growth, made his remarks at a symposium entitled "The Future of Our Federal System," held at the Law School. The symposium was chaired by Byrne Professor of Law Richard T. Stewart and attended by Sen. William Roth (R-Del.) and William T. Coleman, a Washington lawyer who served as Secretary of Transportation during President Ford's Administration...
...post-war years were also ones of growth for Harvard. "The public from the end of the war on [was] very high on higher education," he says. It was then that Harvard began to recruit faculty extensively from abroad, internationalizing the University...