Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III says Harvard's tourist load grew as a result of publicity from the presidencies of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and John F. Kennedy '40, but he feels there is a simpler reason for the increase in visitors...
Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis '70, whose office sends thousands of prospective students on tours every summer week, says that her office has become an unofficial tourist bureau for 'admissions tourists...
Over 1.2 million tourists visit Cambridge annually, leaving a minimum of $1 billion in the city's economy. In a city where Harvard is by far the biggest visitor draw, shops around the Square scramble to get a piece of the tourist...
Across the Square, Coop President Jeremiah P. Murphy '73 says that he doesn't do "anything in particular" to bring in tourist business, but adds that "I think a lot of people who visit Harvard Square eventually come through the Coop...
...tourist business is how well you get the busdriver to direct people to your door," Murphy said. "There definitely are people in the area who try to convince the bus driver to do that...