Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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"Then we sometimes take them on what we call 'Dream Trips' to different colleges. We'll all go up to a school like Harvard, Amherst, or Princeton; we'll walk around the grounds, talk to students, maybe go to a football game. It's not important whether or not a...
"Besides encouraging these kids to go to college we try to give them the tools they'll need to prepare themselves. We teach them reading skills, for instance--how to skim, how to read a science book as opposed to a novel, thinks like that. We also try to get...
"We also have book fairs from time to time. We know the kids can't afford hard covered books, so we sell paperbacks. We just want them to get in the habit of buying books."
While it is still too early really to evaluate the effectiveness of the Project, the results which have been tabulated all point to its success. Of one group of 140 students who went from Jr. H.S. 43 to George Washington H.S., thirty-four per cent went on to post-secondary...
Announcement yesterday of a proposal to construct a 15-story office building on stilts over MTA Harvard Sq. property drew mixed reactions from the University and a civic group.