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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University had begun to admit women into classes, although in an ironic historical note, Conant declared, "Contrary to certain scare-heads in the papers, this date will not mark the beginning of coeducation here in Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FROM SOLDIERS TO SCHOLARS | 6/4/1996 | See Source »

Harvard's decision to admit veterans who had not previously been College students under the G.I. Bill also contributed to the cramped housing situation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FROM SOLDIERS TO SCHOLARS | 6/4/1996 | See Source »

...need to extol the virtues of a liberal arts education, especially to a Harvard audience. Its benefits include the ability to formulate a cogent argument, to understand the history of society and current events, to realize connections among different fields and disciplines and--most importantly--to write well. I admit that Harvard is not fulfilling all of those ideals. Its Core curriculum, currently under scrutiny by a faculty-student committee, does not even include a survey class on Western civilization because of a bureaucratic runaround last year. Its Expository Writing program does not necessarily teach students how to write...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Case for Humanistic Education | 6/4/1996 | See Source »

...police officer on-duty outside the Science Center that morning did not immediately admit the cause of the evacuation to those attempting to enter the building. Many of the evacuees, however, were told that there had been a bomb threat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Science Center Bomb Scare Disrupts Internet Conference | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

White House operatives won't admit to the slightest concern that the Morris strategy invites charges about Clinton as medicine showman. They make the case that the President, in his march to the right, has magically recovered his true self--the New Democrat boy Governor who first attracted attention all those years ago, now grown up and gone to gray but still true to his school. Reforming welfare and opposing same-sex marriage, they insist, are core Clinton beliefs, even though he's done precious little to advance the former and has never had much to say about the latter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ROUGH POLITICS OF VIRTUE | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

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