Word: classing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...become a Harvard tradition of sorts to report periodically on the failures of advising and counseling. The post-World War II class protested the College's deteriorating advising system loudly enough that the Faculty saw fit to launch a study, now in the files under the title "Bender Report," which recognizes that a mere handful of people were shouldering the advising burden and recommended creating group tutorials and senior tutors. But College advising's troubles remained unshaken and in 1969 the Homans report remarked that tutors still believed they had little time to tackle "their main job, communicating with students...
Frustrated by the controls imposed on rents nearly a decade ago, city landlords began wholesale conversion of their apartments into high-priced luxury condos three years ago. This year, Cambridge officials, frightened by the prospect of a radically different Cambridge, with fewer working class and ethnic residents, began to fight back...
...city's new "condo class"--wealthy suburbanites returned to the city--could also change the political system, too. Younger and more fiscally conservative than many of the neighborhood politicians, they will become more powerful as their numbers swell...
...percentages of students giving to each separate scholarship fund have not yet been calculated, but more students gave to the Steven Biko Scholarship Memorial Fund this year than last, Michael Cominsky '80, co-chairman of the 1980 Senior Solicitation, said yesterday. The 1979 senior class committee created the fund last year to help finance scholarships for Black South Africans...
...participation percentage this year is also up significantly from last year's, when 58 per cent of the class pledged. Cominsky said student participation rose partly because "there wasn't any real problem on campus that would make seniors adverse to giving...