Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon's tour of the Middle East will be a dramatic demonstration of a major turning point in U.S. foreign relations, but White House aides are openly worried about the security risks that the President will be running along the way. One adviser was frank enough to admit: "We may get a grenade...
...glad you will admit that, all right...
JUDGING from several newspaper articles, there seems to be a misunderstanding in regard to the proposed plan of private instruction for young women in Cambridge. The opinion prevails that a way has been found to admit women to Harvard College. Nothing of the kind has been done. Provisions have been made to enable young women to be instructed by Harvard professors: and if in time the number of such students becomes large enough, a second university may be built up at the side of Harvard which will give young women the same college advantages that young men have at present...
...most important question, though, is now the size of the undergraduate body. If you want to give up on tutorials and Houses, then let it expand. But if you want to keep the kind of education you want to give, the question becomes who to admit. When I took the job, I saw the issues of the kind of education women get here as the most important...
Horner considers her deanship--she is dean of Radcliffe College under Rosovsky as well as being Radcliffe's president--crucial to the implementation of equality, because it brings her in close touch with the process of educating the women Radcliffe has admitted. "It's not enough to just admit students and then let the Faculty of Arts and Sciences take them over," she says. "When I was appointed I asked that my deanship be Faculty of Arts and Sciences-related. I sit on the Faculty Council; sitting with the policy-making board of the Faculty is very important...