Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like us, they walk through the Yard carrying books and talking with friends. Sometimes they stop to admire the beauty of the campus and the antiquity of its buildings.
Through a host of connections--both formal and informal--students at Harvard and those at Rindge and Latin come in contact every day, beyond the perfunctory glances of a walk through the Yard.
Jackson, the treasurer of the two-year-old Committee on Help for the Advancement of Needy Children through Education (CHANCE), says the gulf is wide between the ivory tower and public high school.
Yao Feng also says that through the regular tutoring sessions, he became friends with Marks and "learned a lot about the social life in the United States. We talked a lot about college and about which college I should go to."
"In high school I had very little sense of the quantity of Harvard students in the Square," Holdt says. "In high school Harvard Yard is somewhere that you walk through to get to the Square. I think it still is."