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Today's College is well-suited to assist in the integration of the races and the promotion of racial harmony because it has a diverse student body living in close quarters. Its capacity for racial integration rests largely on the achievement of Lowell's vision of what the social life of the Houses could bring about. "One object of the University is to counteract rather than copy the defects of the day," he said. "It is in the College that the character ought to be shaped, aspirations formed, citizens trained, and scholarship implanted." He added: "In relations of undergraduates...
...local community's most immediate focus is trying to persuade the Navy to stay, Whipple said, adding that Harvard is expected to assist the lobbying effort...
...November the gun lobby will try to make good on its promises to punish legislators who have opposed it. After the New Jersey vote, senate president Donald DiFrancesco, a Republican who initially supported repeal of the assault-weapon ban, set up a campaign fund to assist legislative candidates that the NRA had targeted for defeat. To make sure the organization got the message, he made the first contribution himself -- $10,000 that the NRA had contributed to his own campaign fund over the past two years...
Both articles in The Crimson have ignored the use and purpose of the funds--to aid the homeless. The St. James Homeless Shelter is a transitional shelter whose objective is to assist homeless individuals in their search for jobs and housing while offering an extended stay, rather than provide a one-night solution to the problem of homelessness by offering short-term lodging...
...attacking, but Bosnian and U.N. officials regard the ploy as part of the Serb campaign to rid the area of non-Serbs. Serb officials seemed to confirm that with a statement that Muslims and Serbs "will not live together ever again." In spite of the U.N.'s reluctance to assist in the "cleansing," General Philippe Morillon, head of the peacekeeping force in Bosnia, went to Cerska on Friday to try, apparently unsuccessfully, to negotiate an evacuation...