Word: influxes
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...this massive influx of Harvard undergraduates into the financial sector a recent phenomenon. For more than two decades, investment banks and consulting firms have had a firm chokehold on the postgraduate dreams of many ambitious Harvard students. Renowned journalist Jennifer 8. Lee ’98-99 has aptly described the entire recruiting process as “a complicated rite of courtship, complete with flirting (invitations), wooing (interviews), and proposals (offers...
...herdsman shakes his grizzled head when I ask if it is possible that an influx of Chinese immigrants and modernization could mean that such events - and the protests of March 2008 - could eventually be forgotten. "What happened last year is now part of our history too. Even my son's sons and their sons will remember after I die. They will hate the government too. We will never forget...
...Harvard’s director of community relations Kevin A. McCluskey ’76 said in an interview that the connection between Harvard’s excavation and the influx of rats was tenuous, and that the University employs a “very aggressive and thorough pre-construction program” that anticipated rodent displacement from the work site. He also pointed out that an explanation for the rat influx might be the failure of community members to dispose of trash properly in rat-proof garbage bins...
Terry Grier, superintendent of the San Diego Unified School District, says his district needs a cash influx now. "There are schools in our district that don't even have nurses on certain days," says Grier, whose district includes Hage Elementary School and its shuttered stacks. "If a kid skins his elbow, a teacher has to take time out of her lesson to dust him off, clean him up and put on a Band...
...goal of the seminar program,” he wrote in an e-mail. “I think of my seminar course as an invitation, rather than an introduction.”Sandra A. Naddaff ’75, director of the Freshman Seminar Program, notes that the influx of studio-based freshman seminars is a result of the program’s commitment to anticipate student interest by providing a wide variety of courses. While bolstering its offerings, the program has been actively engaged in providing classes that integrate elements of the creative arts. “What...