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Golden, by contrast, is willing to make that bet. (And it’s an easier bet for him to make, since his room and board aren’t riding on it.) Golden claims that colleges could abolish legacy preference without taking a huge fundraising hit. He notes that “three prestigious private colleges”—Caltech, Cooper Union in New York City, and Berea College in Kentucky—“flourish without preferences for…alumni children...
...very best from the merely very, very good. The current process, however, is hopelessly burdensome, inaccurate, and biased. Standardized tests, for example, separate the good test takers from bad test takers, rather than the best students from the next best. But Harvard College’s recent move to abolish early action is a step in the right direction. As Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 says, abolishing early action is “certainly a win for students in the bottom quarter and bottom half of the income distribution...
...quite well. Most were Protestants, and so Harvard had a daily chapel. But as meritocracy gained traction within the admissions process, the communal institutions that were natural outgrowths of students’ homogeneity became outdated. In a revolutionary move in 1886, University President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, abolished the daily chapel service. The great books controversies of the 1960s removed any shared requirement of a general education. The point, of course, is not that diversity is bad—each of those changes were necessary in their time. Rather, after admitting more minorities, the College should have made...
...editors: Re: “Abortion: A Product of Its Times,” op-ed, Sep. 13. Although I abhor analyses that are grounded in social darwinism, I do agree with one of N. Kathy Lin’s insights, namely, that the way to abolish abortion is to create a world in which women are not driven to abort their children because of socioeconomic considerations. Banning abortion through statutes will not change the fact that women feel trapped by the burden of unwanted pregnancies. I sincerely believe that the only way we can abolish abortion is to give...
...Furious discussions about whether to limit, amend or suppress inheritance taxes broke out last week in both Britain and France. In Italy, meanwhile, there's controversy and skepticism about plans by the new government[an error occurred while processing this directive] of Romano Prodi to reinstate the inheritance tax abolished by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in one of his first acts on taking office in 2001. The debate is erupting now because death duties of up to 40%, once paid only by the affluent, are starting to affect a growing number of middle-class Europeans - and will likely...