Word: solicitousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there is hope for a true social revolution, or at least social progress, at Harvard. If the Dean of Students can be persuaded to help with a housing search for new social clubs, perhaps the University can be persuaded to help solicit funds from concerned alumni. In fact, taking other schools as a pattern, Harvard could (gasp!) build a legitimate student center or perhaps even buy a bar and make it 18 and over. What the heck, we already own a $25 million share in the House of Blues. All that is required is a little motivation...
...shoes at Grand Central Terminal. It is the last scene of Elia Kazan's film America, America, the story of a young Greek's fierce determination to immigrate to America. Quickly, but as casually as an afterthought, a young black man, also a shoe shiner, enters and tries to solicit a customer. He is run off the screen -- "Get out of here! We're doing business here!" -- and silently disappears...
Jewett will describe the process in more detailand solicit the input of Winthrop residents at anopen meeting next week, said Mobley, where "peoplecan describe what they want." The committee willbe looking for Harvard faculty members interestedin the position...
...council member Frank A. Pasquale '96cautioned the council against creating anenvironment conducive to "small groups splittingoff merely so that they can solicit money...
...There will be no changes in benefits in anycontracts," she said. "We thought these advisorycommittees would be fairly comprehensive...Itseemed a more efficient way to solicit people'sviews...