Word: summers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Quoted at an all-time high of $13 billion in June 1998, the endowment, Harvard's stockpile of funds, lost 10 percent of its value during the summer months--three percentage points more than the forecasted drop of 7 percent. Harvard was not alone; universities across the country experienced losses of 6 to 10 percent...
Although there are relatively few explicit costs for students who pack up and move home for the summer, the College pays a hefty price to get under-graduates out of their rooms and move alumni...
Although Milikowsky will be far from the front this summer while she works as a researcher-writer for Let's Go in Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Belgium, she says the coalition plans to continue its work in the fall. The group plans to work on instituting mandatory first-year outreaches during Orientation Week for future entering classes, to continue raising awareness on campus and to work towards a women's center that would provide vital services...
...That's a very long-term project," she says. This summer, several interns will lay the groundwork for the center. "No one expects any of this stuff to change while we're here," says Milikowsky, who will take next semester off to get some "space" away from Harvard before she embarks on her thesis...