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...grounds with a wide variety of interests and skills both to enhance and to brighten the undergraduate experience and for socially strategic reasons. It is as a result of this policy that there are jock or preppie or wonk Houses. With its Core Curriculum, the College has tried to broaden the minds of its students and insure that they emerge with more than highly specialized knowledge. But when these praiseworthy practices are applied to House and social life, they cease to be admirable and become forms of social engineering. While Harvard can strive to offer as diverse and variegated...
Another founder, Vanessa K. Thomas 86, said that the group's efforts are not just focused on the Harvard community. "We felt that Black students in the Cambridge and Boston area are being exposed mainly to Blacks who are athletes or entertainers. We hope to broaden their career perspectives by getting Blacks from other fields to speak to them here at Harvard," Thomas said...
When he hit school, Mark started to break from the family pattern and broaden his interests beyond hockey...
Sciff Professor of Investment Banking Samuel L. Hayes III said the B-School is "trying to broaden the net" for people with distinguished business background, adding that Pearson was "one of [the B-School's] best catches...
...delegates at the party's annual convention held outside Paris last week by sharply criticizing the administration of Socialist President Francois Mitterrand for having allowed "a serious breach to develop between the government and the country." A centrist and longtime Mitterrand rival, Rocard called on the party to "broaden its appeal to the whole of the country." Party Secretary Lionel Jospin was quick to reply next morning. He was shocked, he said, that "a member of the government would speak to the discredit of his own Cabinet." Said Jospin: "I agree that we must listen to the voice...