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...said that Harvard uses the continued existence of Radcliffe as an excuse for not looking closely at the needs of women. As much as I love Radcliffe, it is not currently meeting the very real needs of the countless women whose academic and extracurricular lives are not centered in Agassiz House. We need strong women in our Harvard classrooms and our Harvard activities to inspire us--not to replace the men who fill that capacity now, but to supplement them. We need to feel that the whole campus is a safe, comfortable place...
...throughout Cambridge.Jenny M. Fu, Joshua J. SchankerCrimsonCity Income Poverty UnemploymentEast Cambridge $37,013 2.8% 6.0%MIT/Area 2 25,000 13.0 3.2Wellington-Herrington 32,615 8.6 6.5Area 4 26,836 18.6 10.8Cambridgeport 32,432 6.9 5.7Mid-Cambridge 50,272 3.5 3.7Riverside 32,746 9.9 4.4Agassiz 55,407 1.1 4.0Area 9 52,721 4.8 5.0Area 10 73,300 2.7 2.6North Cambridge 37,236 9.7 6.1Highlands 43,214 0.0 4.6Straw. Hill/Mt. Auburn 35,357 7.9 7.3Average for Cambridge 39,990 7.2 5.2Source: Cambridge Community Development Departmen
...late Richard J. Herrnstein argued that intelligence is inheritable and black and Latinos come up short on every test. Since one author has a degree from Harvard, and the other was a professor at the University, their words and ideas have been taken by many Americans as gospel. Likewise, Agassiz, Morton and a number of other 19th-century scholars connected to prestigious universities and foundations operating from racist perspectives saturated the public with pseudoscientific proof that African-Americans were inferior. The 1990s is a repeat of the 19th century, where academics define the parameters of discussion and defend the racist...
...Harvard faculty, including Louis Agassiz and Ernest Hooton, were involved in and helped to lead the now-discredited eugenics movement...
Following a five-month long search, Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography James J. McCarthy and his wife Susan have been chosen to serve as the new masters of Pforzheimer House...