Word: placement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...terms of placement, yesterday's finishes for freshman Brian Younger and senior Rich Beukema of the Harvard men's swimming team weren't exactly stellar...
Earlier this month, the city council asked MIT officials to provide the council with an evaluation of the institute, including an analysis of program costs, course offerings and job placement for school graduates...
Rankings were based on four general criteria:student selectivity, faculty resources, reputationand job placement for graduates. The magazine'sstaff converted these numbers into percentiles andthen combined them to arrive at an overallranking
Currently, the College does very little in this regard. Aside from randomly mixing students in the Yard--which does have significant impact--it is difficult for first-years to meet each other in an intimate setting. Freshman Week is a blur of placement exams and Crimson Key ice cream socials--which, despite good intentions, are not good places to get to know someone...
...fairly late arrivals. Human technology-the making of tools from stone-had already been in existence for nearly 2 million years. There are traces of symbolism and ritual in burial sites of Neanderthals, an earlier species, dating back to 100,000 B.P. (before the present). Not only did the placement of the bodies seem meaningful, but so did the surrounding pebbles and bones with fragmentary patterns scratched on them. These, says Clottes, "do indicate that the Neanderthals had some creative capacity...