Word: summers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard let go many of its security guards loose this summer. "About half of the guards left," Billy says. "About 27 out of 54 guards I'd say. Either they were old, or they took some money and got away. It was a lot of money, maybe $13,000, but that's not a year's worth of work. In the long run, the agreement wasn't worth the paper it was printed on." Harvard replaced the vacated positions with subcontracted workers from Security Systems Incorporated (SSI). Instead of the traditional black Harvard uniform, they wear bright white shirts with...
...Harvard instructor of my acquaintance tells a good anecdote about the contrast between the American and the European educational philosophies. One year he noticed that a high school student in the summer school electronics course he was teaching was doing poorly, and he and the teaching fellow were discussing why this might be. Perhaps, they suggested, he was not really interested in the material and was attending summer school only because his parents had made him. Perhaps he was having trouble adapting to being so far from home. That year the co-instructor for the course happened...
...result, EFZ became financially independent in the summer...
...example of CPD's proactive approach was a special anti-drug effort in Area 4--a neighborhood northeast of Central Square--where plainclothes patrol officers and Special Investigations detectives targeted street dealers over the summer, resulting in 61 arrests, over a third of the total narcotics arrests for the city...
Eliot and Kirkland House's beautiful new dining halls have turned into a headache for the Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) employees who work there. The two dining halls were refurbished this summer, the first step in a series of dining hall renovations scheduled for the next few years. The new dining halls have drawn praise from students for their design and the quality of the food; for some employees, though, the redesigned halls have meant longer and harder hours and increased tension with HUDS management...