Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Campus social organizations excluded Italians, Jews and Blacks. Black students were barred from living in first-year dormitories. Lowell wrote to a parent of a Black student, "I am sure you will understand why, from the beginning, we have not thought it possible to compel men of different races to reside together...
This logic applies to our generation: we can contemplate gifts, because we were allowed to partake in the Harvard community. Harvard still has a long way to go to admit enough women and students from Native American or poor or Black or Hispanic backgrounds and hire a more diverse faculty. But financial aid and recruitment show a step in the right direction...
...grandparents never made the Harvard connection. A sampling of a dozen current students turned up the following information about what grandparents were at the age they could have been attending Harvard: a Jewish store clerk, an Irish bar bouncer, a Texas construction worker, a New York Italian cop, a Black post office worker, a Connecticut farmer, a Texas reverend, a Jewish actuary, an Italian cleaner, a Black teacher, a Puerto Rico businessman and pool hall owner, a senator in Taiwan and a Naval doctor in China. The majority did not attend college...
...city agency investigating charges of harassment filed by two Black students against the Cambridge police will not be able to hold a hearing on the case until after Commencement, an agency official said yesterday...
...banks of the Charles the day before, the Harvard and Radcliffe heavyweight crews continued to show why they were the best crews in the nation this spring. The Black and White ripped past Yale for the Case Cup. The Crimson nipped Penn and Navy for the Adams...