Word: plights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Andrew D. Cooper '00, co-director of Project Literacy, said the program, in which volunteers tutor adults in English, took particular interest in the plight of the Hondurans because many of the people they tutor have family there...
...Harvard College Freshman Theater Program is back with a new production of Emlyn Williams' The Corn is Green, a tale of a Welsh coal-mining town in the late 1800s. Although the story takes place in the nineteenth century, some of its main themes, such as class struggle, the plight of rural education and the role of women in a male-dominated world, are still quite relevant. At the center of the play is a young Welsh coal miner, Morgan Evans (Mwashuma Kamata Nyatta), who is taken under the wing of the local teacher, Miss Moffat (played by Dossy Peabody...
...rounded off by Paul A. Gusmorino, III, as John Goronwy Jones, a man who lives between classes and is not entirely sure of his place in society: he is Welsh, yet highly educated, sympathizing with the Welsh coalmining students in Miss Moffat's school, as he can understand their plight and their language...
...other end of the field, UConn's first tally nearly defined good fortune. The Huskies' Margaret Tietjen--twin sister of ejected Jennifer--avenged her sister's plight in the 28th minute when her cross from the endline sailed over the Harvard crossbar and miraculously struck the side of the net inside the far post...
Perhaps the most glaring evidence of our non-responsiveness to the plight of student groups is evidenced in the dismal state of student groups' working conditions. Only 27 percent of Harvard's student groups have office space provided by the College. Of the scores of ethnic and cultural organizations that "diverse Harvard" is so proud of, only nine have any office space at all. The greatest impact the council can make on the Harvard community would be to successfully lobby the administration for these student group resources...