Word: boarded
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...Crimson article, written as part of a larger series tackling the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education school segregation decision, perhaps typifies the racial attitudes of the times. The article, headlined "Only Individual Bias Exists at Harvard," concluded that, "all in all, Harvard's admissions policy for Negroes is an non-discriminatory as the University itself is to Negroes studying here...
...women, gender and society" and expand its already-famous post-graduate research centers. As part of the restructuring, President Linda S. Wilson, who headed the college during the negotiations that shaped its future, will resign her post as Radcliffe's seventh and final president. On Tuesday night, the Radcliffe Board of Trustees conferred upon her the title of president emerita and named the directorship of the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute in her honor...
...channel myself in a direction that will mark me, limit me and steer me forever. Yes, you can quit your job. You can go back to school. You can move to a new continent. But you cannot recover the past. You cannot ever get back on the highest diving board, clean and dry, once you jump into the pool...
Indeed, that is where we are now, each of us, on the highest diving board there is, with the world sprawled out below us. We have a Harvard diploma. We can be anything we want to be. Most of us have made the leap, but I keep waiting for inspiration to strike, waiting for a way out of accepting the need to jump...
...most direct confrontations in an ongoing building of tensions between undergraduates and graduate board members in many of the eight all-male final clubs...