Word: travels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writing to express my outrage at Harvard University over the scheduling of graduation activities and ceremonies on a Wednesday and Thursday. It appears that Harvard assumes that everyone's family members can afford to take off work in the middle of the week to travel to Cambridge for graduation...
...would have been just as easy to schedule graduation for a Saturday or Sunday. In that way, family members and friends would have been spared business travel, hotel and car rental rates, which tend to be much more expensive than weekend rates. Furthermore, many airlines require Saturday-night stays. For this reason, Harvard's inconsiderate planning has priced graduation out of many people's budgets...
...acknowledged that the University had gone a long way toward achieving the first goal: "providing equal opportunities regardless of race." On the other hand, he admitted Harvard and Radcliffe had some distance to travel to achieve an atmosphere in which all felt "welcomed, accepted, and sufficiently confident of their status." He went on to describe concrete actions that could be taken to achieve the second and third goals...
...HUSC users aren't actually concerned about how fast data travel over the phone; their frustration stems more from the fact that there just aren't enough lines to accomodate ven a fraction of those eager to dial into HUSC to check e-mail or read USENET news or do their problem sets, most of which can be done at the slower speed 2400 baud but only when you can dial...
...Travel suits the peripatetic nature of the narrative. The world is an agora through which Moores and McPhee amble and learn. Whenever their exchanges seem about to burst with an excess of ophiolites, abyssoliths and subduction zones, McPhee relieves the pressure with anecdotes and historical nuggets. Included is a tectonic dish of special interest to Californians. During the past 2,000 years, part of the San Andreas Fault near Los Angeles has been wrenched by 12 major earthquakes. On average they occurred 145 years apart. The most recent Big One hit in 1857. McPhee makes no predictions but figures...