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Starting in the mid-1980s, every Harvard undergraduate had an account that they could use to e-mail or transfer files anywhere in the world. Harvard was part of the Unix-to-Unix Copy network, which allowed for digital data transmission practically in real time. Data transfer could take a full day, depending on how far it needed to travel...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Plugged In: Computers In Class | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...mid-1980s, Harvard also partnered with Hewlett-Packard and other companies to integrate state-of-the-art technologies into the classroom...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Plugged In: Computers In Class | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...Lowell House blockade marked the peak of the anti-apartheid protests in the mid-1980s, resulting in disciplinary action for more than a dozen students...

Author: By ZOE A. Y. WEINBERG, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Protest Apartheid | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...Green Key Weekend” looms. The usual plan of attack for the three-day weekend includes a block party at Phi Delta Alpha fraternity and a lawn party at Alpha Delta. There used to be chariot races (just like in Ben-Hur!), but those were banned in the mid-1980s...

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yardfest Countdown: Around the Ivies | 4/16/2010 | See Source »

...What's more, producers say business plays can draw a bigger crowd than other productions. Susan Gallin, who produced in the mid-1980s the off-Broadway hit Other People's Money, about corporate raiders, says she remembers more men in the audience of that play than in others she has worked on. "There is an audience for business plays that just doesn't exist for other plays," says Gallin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Enron Play on Broadway? | 3/25/2010 | See Source »

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