Word: solicited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...applaud the serious attention Harvard is giving the problem--especially the intention of L. Fred Jewett '57, admissions and financial aid dean, to solicit student opinions on the matter through House meetings. But we cannot stress enough our conviction that an equitable financial aid policy is of unparalleled importance. If at all possible, the University should strive to fill the gap left by receding federal aid with money...
...return to Harvard in 1971, 46 years after her graduation from Radcliffe, while her late husband spent a term at Harvard as a visiting professor. What struck her most about the students she spoke with was their complete lack of historical knowledge. She recounts her unsuccessful attempts to solicit the approximate dates of Louis XIV's reign from a large group of students, having a music major place Beethoven somewhere in the 16th century, and to her greatest chagrin, an almost universal ignorance of the major issues of the Spanish Civil War, an event of great importance to intellectuals...
Santa Claus: The prototype of this jolly old gift-giving gentleman was a stern but kindly bishop who lived in Asia Minor in the fourth century. St. Nicholas, so legend goes, learned that the impoverished father of three young women planned to allow them to solicit in order to provide dowries. Filling three bags with gold, Nicholas threw them into the maidens' rooms. All were soon happily married, and St. Nicholas was forever associated with unexpected gifts...
...paper's staff, which is currently forming a business board, is planning to apply for grants from about 20 organizations and to solicit advertising from political organizations and businesses, Painter said...
Reagan said the new program may help solicit fresh information about the Fuller fires. "The leads are very slim. People just aren't coming forward on this one, if for no other reason than lack of interest," Reagan added...