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...they "interested" in being nurses and not doctors? Secretaries, not executives? The prospect of entering a field in which only a minute number of women attain success would be enough to dampen any woman's interest...
...Core Curriculum is only a poor substitute for the good advice and counseling that would direct, but not coerce students to attain a balanced education. And the Core will not solve one of Harvard's fundamental problems: the dearth of close associations between students and Faculty members. Instead, by setting the huge introductory course up as the basis of a Harvard education, the Core proposal would only widen the gulf between students and Faculty members. A Harvard education could easily be reduced to instruction by busy graduate students who are much more interested in pleasing their doctoral advisers than accommodating...
...neglect the people have received under the hand of the American colonialists. Of the eleven trusteeships established after World War II, Micronesia's future status is the last one to be resolved. Perhaps the U.S. will finally receive the two rewards that it has struggled so hard to attain in Micronesia-embarrassment and shame...
...concessions on political power-sharing with blacks on a national level. He will proceed with his plans for constitutional changes to establish separate "parliaments" for whites, mixed-blood coloreds, and Asians, and will continue to develop the tribal homelands. This week BophuthaTswana becomes the second of these homelands to attain "independence...
...were eager to improve their lot, but had never been involved in the political process before, could be kept in order long enough even to discuss, let alone vote, on all these issues. Order was achieved by the kind of discipline any male politician would give his eyeteeth to attain...