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...facto segregation is an extremely complex problem. Undoubtedly it exists in Boston, principally because most of the city's Negroes live in the Roxbury and Dorchester sections, and their children attend the same schools. But whether merely shuffling students from school district to school district will provide an adequate answer remains quite an open question. The problem involves other elements: discrimination in housing, which keeps Negroes in the ghetto areas; discrimination in employment, which not only limits the ability of the average Negro family to move away from the ghetto, but also has a deleterious affect on the school work...
...were academically behind every other elementary school in town. The board, nobly it thought, got a city-wide vote to build a fine new Lincoln on the same spot. Negro parents countered with a federal suit on then-novel grounds: it is just as unconstitutional to compel Negroes to attend a de facto segregated school in the North as a de jure segregated school in the South...
Institute for Humanistic Studies, where one may attend two-hour discussions on Aristotle's Ethics or Herman Kahn's thermonuclear theories. The music is just as uncompromising. A typical program may consist of a Bach suite, a Mozart piano concerto, and a trio of demanding modern works by Darius Milhaud, conducted by the arthritically crippled composer from his wheelchair. All 40 of the visiting artists also teach, and among those present besides Milhaud this season are Met Opera Star Eleanor Steber and the renowned teacher of Van Cliburn, Rosina Lhevinne. By encouraging the festivaliant to start...
...Loeb Experimental Theatre is in some ways not a theatre at all. It has more in common with a workshop or a classroom, where new ideas can be born, developed or rejected. The process of education can go on frankly there, free of the careerist anxieties that attend a polished Main Stage play...
...privilege of auditing any number of courses without charge is one of the distinctive and most valuable aspects of Harvard during the regular school year. Unfortunately, this opportunity is not available during the summer session. Students who wish to attend the lectures of a course are required to pay rather stiff fees for the privilege...