Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over a year ago she faltered at crunch time, and she has paid a stinging price ever since. In the spring of 1998 Walker scored well below her grade level on the reading section of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills. Chicago's widely hailed policy aimed at ending social promotion--the practice of automatically passing students to the next grade--required her to attend summer school. At the end of it she fell short again, which meant she had to repeat eighth grade. She watched all her classmates move on to high school. "I feel really bad that...
...Douglas W. Sears '69, president of the Inter-Club Council, said graduate members believe Harvard should carry more of the social burden and allow the clubs to return to their original purpose...
...although the ban on building use was lifted, the incident points to the fact that Harvard final clubs have changed. And many people predict the transformation will continue as Harvard students reach the limits of their search for social venues...
...Harvard, the final tuition, based on an amalgamation of both monetary and social factors, is the product of what the Treasurer of the University D. Ronald Daniel calls a "dialogue" between Knowles and the corporation...
...After randomization,] people put a lot ofemphasis on who they're blocking with," says FrankE. Pacheco '99, a former House Committee chair inAdams House. "You end up with a group of 16 peoplewho are really good friends and those groups havestuck together and defined the social cliques allthe way through for a lot of people...