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...began in 1997, when Megan L. Peimer '97 and Ezra W. Reese '97 asked seniors to withhold their gifts from the college and place them in a privately held escrow fund to protest the University's tenure policies. The several thousand dollars raised will only be given to the University when it meets criteria for tenuring of female professors...
...talent," the long-time Boston resident said in an interview with The Crimson. His father was a violinist in the New York Philharmonic, though, and it was through attending many concerts that Schuller started collecting records at the age of 13. "By 16, I had two or three thousand recordings. Composers like Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Ravel, Debussy, Scriabin--they were my initial influences. They precipitated my harmonic and rhythmic styles...
...Twenty-thousand. What does that number represent to Harvard students? The number of pages they read last month? The number of e-mails in their inboxes which they have yet to delete? How about the number of dollars charged on their last termbills...
...happens to all of us, even the economics concentrators. Who knows how that not-so-modest fee for tuition, room and board suddenly ballooned by several thousand? Sourcebook costs, overdue library books, lost ID cards and extracurricular courses somehow always conspire against us. These miscellaneous expenses are easily written off to our termbills and even more easily forgotten. Unfortunately, this usually means that come vacation time, the surprise that awaits us at home is not freshly baked cookies but stern lectures...
...Twenty-thousand dollars? Definitely a gross overestimate of this term's bill...