Word: ukranians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Summer school enrollment soars to 20,000. Administrators attribute the dramatic increase to Harvard's reputation and quality of instruction. Other observers, however, suggest the increase is due to the increased admission of high school students struggling to get into the college and to a surge of interest in Ukranian studies...
About 160 of these came to take courses in Ukranian studies; their tuition was paid by the Ukranian Studies Fund, a Harvard-affiliated organization that is phenomenally successful at raising money in the U.S. Ukranian community...
Remember those 160 students who came here to study Ukranian? Thirty-seven of them staged a well-publicized hunger strike for 24 hours this summer, in protest of the Soviet Union's arrest of several prominent Ukrainians. More than 100 others joined them demonstration in the Yard, gathering signatures on a petition the students sent to President Carter...
...Ukranian American Youth Association Dance Group is dancing at 3:30 p.m. on July 10 at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Ma., which would be a nice thing for people in the intensive Ukranian studies program to consider--although maybe they shouldn't go, as sources say the classes are really tough...
...normal curriculum of the University; yet not a single one of the indigenous languages of sub-Saharan Africa (estimated to number anywhere from 200 to 1200) is taught as a serious and separate course. Harvard also has two other departments (Comparative Literature and Linguistics) and a related program (Ukranian) whose primary concern is the study of European languages and/or literatures--not to mention the Department of English (and American) Literature and Language--which would increase the number of professors involved in language instruction to more than one hundred...