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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because many of its houses possess that same unwelcome characteristic of its classroom buildings--old age--Harvard limits disabled students in their housing choices. Drafts, who lives in a dormitory at the Middlesex County Hospital in Waltham, had no choice at all. The chairman of transfer students' admissions rejected his request for an on-campus room because Harvard did not have adequate facilities and because he lived nearby anyway. Drafts feels the decision was probably best for him but adds, "I have a sneaky feeling, though, not living here makes me miss a lot." He proposes that Harvard either establish...

Author: By Deidre M. Sullivan, | Title: Disabled Students at Harvard | 3/24/1977 | See Source »

...after World War II, special education programs "were initiated mostly by colleges and universities. They tried to get people to take their kids with, say, cerebral palsy out of the home, where they'd kept them locked up, and into these special education programs... These kids are of college age now. I feel the universities have a special responsibility to recruit the disabled since they brought most of them to the point where they can attempt to get into school." L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions, opposes an admissions policy which would single out applicants because of their disabilities...

Author: By Deidre M. Sullivan, | Title: Disabled Students at Harvard | 3/24/1977 | See Source »

...boxing would not be where it is without him. The sport badly needed Ali for his flamboyance and, more importantly, for his intelligence. In a rapidly advancing technological and intellectual age, boxing's barbarity made it assume an inhuman and primitive quality which ran counter to prevailing ideas...

Author: By Sandy Cardin, | Title: Boxing Gets Up Off Canvas | 3/23/1977 | See Source »

...age four, Walsh kicked-off her career by learning how to swim. At age seven she began swimming competitively and three years later she started swimming year-round...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Getting an Early Jump on the Spring Vacation... ...By Managing in Russia... ...Or by Swimming in Rome | 3/22/1977 | See Source »

Canales's first major win came at the 1968 Central American Games, when he was competing in the ten-and-under age group. In that meet, Canales grabbed a silver medal in the 200-meter individual medley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Getting an Early Jump on the Spring Vacation... ...By Managing in Russia... ...Or by Swimming in Rome | 3/22/1977 | See Source »

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