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...Felton, a national university could aspire to have a nationwide influence, helping to 'remove prejudices' and to reduce the possibility of misunderstanding, conflict, and even war. Geography--or place of residence--thus became, from an early date, a critical component in Harvard's concept of diversity...
...President A. Lawrence Lowell was clearly very different from Eliot, and in some ways sought to limit Eliot's concept of diversity. For example, he called for quotas on the number of Jewish students admitted to Harvard. At the same time, he went further than Eliot in providing facilities that could sustain the more democratic ideals which had gradually been established at the university. In developing the residential House system during the late 1920s, Lowell specifically sought to diminish the tendency of students to form 'cliques based upon similarity of origin and upon wealth...
...only round-the-clock supervision rather than round-the-clock nursing and medical care. Other patients attend therapy programs during the day but sleep elsewhere. "After 10 or 14 days of hospitalization," explains Sederer, "the staff know they must find other services, like partial hospitalization and ambulatory programs. The concept is continuous care...
...Unlike post-Vietnam criminals, who feared prison, police and peers and took care to avoid arrest and notoriety, this new teenage horde from hell kills, maims and terrorizes merely to become known or even sometimes for no reason at all. These teens have no fear of dying and no concept of living. DANIEL R. COBURN Morristown, New Jersey...
Butterfield said much of the American tradition of violence comes from the Southern concept of pride and honor...