Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard instructor of my acquaintance tells a good anecdote about the contrast between the American and the European educational philosophies. One year he noticed that a high school student in the summer school electronics course he was teaching was doing poorly, and he and the teaching fellow were discussing why this might be. Perhaps, they suggested, he was not really interested in the material and was attending summer school only because his parents had made him. Perhaps he was having trouble adapting to being so far from home. That year the co-instructor for the course happened...
...report singles out Harvard Square as one of the safest neighborhoods in Cambridge. It has been over a year since a commercial robbery occurred in the area...
Last month, Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine announced an unprecedented $21 million commitment to attack one of the region's major issues, affordable housing...
...While Harvard's act was a one-time allocation, for more than a decade, on a side street behind City Hall, a group of grassroots activists has been consistently tackling the Cambridge housing shortage...
...those of you who participated in the Rally for a Living Wage this month, you get big kudos. This is not because I agree one lick with what you're saying, but because you cared enough to do something. Harvard's 1969 protest mentality will never...