Word: admittedly
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Even in the era when Harvard would only admit a few token black students, the University nurtured some of the greatest African-American scholars, such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Charles Hamilton Houston. However, Harvard has certainly come a long way from the day when Du Bois (the first black student to earn a Harvard Ph.D.) was forced to live off campus. Today, black academics not only study at Harvard--they also hold tenure. Harvard's Du Bois Institute is the nation's premier institution for research in Afro-American studies...
...state it that way, I realize, is to invite accusations of engaging in class warfare. I might as well admit I am among those who find a bit of class warfare diverting on days when there's no professional wrestling on TV. Those of us who feel that way were relieved to see Forbes enter the race. We'd been flummoxed by the Republican assumption last year that, for purposes of a $500-a-child tax credit, anyone who makes up to $200,000 a year is middle class. If practically everyone is the same class, we kept thinking...
...order to change the amount of effort equated with specific grades at top schools, Harvard cannot act alone. Schools other than Harvard need to admit that inflation is out of control and reassess what a B means...
Consequently, he said he expects the admissions committee to admit slightly fewer students and if the yield does not increase, the admissions office could take as many as one hundred from the waiting list...
...management or just perhaps against anyone not represented by a lawyer. Also, they are uninterested in minor ideologies such as the law, their rules and regulations are contradictory, and their disregard for statutes that do not agree with their position is obvious. The Office of Special Counsel will not admit that they have jurisdiction over this issue even though their own rules state that they...