Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Spence said the plan will help to alleviate asevere faculty office space shortage, which hitsjunior faculty especially hard, and allowdepartments to house their members closer togetherthan is currently possible...
Jackson, the treasurer of the two-year-old Committee on Help for the Advancement of Needy Children through Education (CHANCE), says the gulf is wide between the ivory tower and public high school...
CHANCE sponsors weekly meals and teaching sessions every Monday night for approximately 50 Rindge and Latin students who want or need additional academic help. The program includes classes in SAT preparation, writing skills and creative learning, says Vice President Andrew S. Richman...
Still, Richman says that the informality of the CHANCE program--in contrast with the more formal setting in Rindge and Latin classrooms--is one way the program can help motivate students to improve their academic skills...
...never thought that I could get so involved with Harvard," Rodriguez says. "My impression used to be that [Harvard students] didn't want to help the community and didn't have the time. Students would look at me funny when I walked around, campus and they would think, "This high school student shouldn't be here.' Now I sort of look up to them...