Word: class
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee of twenty-one, to be composed, of the Dean of the Faculty, serving as chairman ex officio, eleven student members, and nine members of the Faculty. We suggest that the eleven student members be elected, five from the House on a rotating basis, one from the Freshman class, two from Radcliffe, and three from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, of whom one each shall be chosen by graduate students in the Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and Humanities. We also recommend, that of the nine faculty members, to be appointed by the Dean of the Faculty, three...
...these regulations, rules governing undergraduate organizations, the operations of various offices which supply services to undergraduates, and related matters of particular concern to undergraduates. We also recommend that its present membership be broadened to include ten (and soon eleven) student members, representing each of the Houses and the Freshman Class, these members to be designated by the Harvard Undergraduate Council and appointed by the Dean. We suggest initial reliance on the Harvard Undergraduate Council to supply the student contingent to this committee because the HUC has centered its activities in this area and its members are elected by the Houses...
Darlington supplies his own definition of social class as "A group of people who breed together because they work together and work together because they breed together." With this definition in hand, he sorts peoples, nations, cities and even craftsmen into indigenous tribes. "Nothing on earth will make them come to terms with the general body of society," he writes of the Cosa Nostra, whom he classifies as hereditary criminals. "They are a race apart...
...idea that heredity doesn't matter, that all behavior is social, that it's the result of education-the whole general humbug." Like controversial Psychologist Arthur Jensen (TIME, April 11), he is astonished at the willingness of educators to assume that all their students arrive in class with approximately equal intellectual endowments. Any test of this, in his opinion, invariably demolishes the assumption. "Some people are teachable and others are not, and the difference is genetic...
...school and allowed him to join a Methodist youth group. At Colgate University, modernist thinkers so impressed the boy that he wrote his mother, "I am building another universe and leaving God out of it." But God was back in by the time Fosdick graduated from Colgate in the class of 1900. He entered Union Theological Seminary and in 1903 was ordained into the Baptist ministry...