Word: transfering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is one of the finest in the country--its collections of Egyptian and Oriental art are the best in the Western Hemisphere. Take the Red Line subway to Park Street, transfer to the Arborway, get off at Northeastern and walk two blocks. Admission is $2.50, but you can get in free and buy a one-year student pass for $5.00. Hours are Wed.-Sun. 10-5, Tuesday 10-9. Right now the MFA is also on a bicentennial binge, with an exhibit on Paul Revere and a slide show on the Revolution...
GREATER FINANCIAL AID. The Third World wants not only an outright redistribution of the wealth; it wants it faster than ever. The industrialized nations should increase their lagging aid donations, pledge a higher proportion of their G.N.P.s to development assistance, and transfer more of their technology and more of their productive facilities to the underdeveloped nations. Hard-pressed Third World countries should have their foreign debt obligations eased and in certain cases even canceled...
...after year. Way back in the 1930s, a professor named George Pierce Baker wanted to form a drama department here, but his plans were thwarted by alleged lack of funds. Baker went on to found the Yale School of Drama. While Harvard each year loses some, like Baker, who transfer to schools more receptive to the needs of the serious actor/actress, Harvard's abundance and variety of theatrical activities more than suffices for those without the talent and aspirations of a Laurence...
...wiping sleep out of your eyes, the go-getters are already at work, frantically waving hands, ready to ask questions of the guest lecturer that were prepared months ago. You'll stumble out firm in the belief that you need a year off or that it's time to transfer...
There are other stories. One resourceful proctor managed to transfer a non-athletic freshman out of the then jocky, preppy Greenough to the coveted sanctuary of a single room in Hurlbut. "I'll never forget him for that," the freshman vows fervently. Another proctor who had some sort of clout with the administration kept several kids miraculously off academic probation for the entire year. "I don't know how he did it," one of them marvels. "It was a beautiful sleight-of-hand...