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These mapmakers, our leaders, have blinded themselves to racial issues. Using the archaic pattern of segregation, they have interposed it upon all problems in their search for solutions. Although medical and chemical research has proven that the blood of Negroes does not in the least differ from that of whites, the Red Cross continues to set it apart from "regular" blood. Although men in the Army, as human beings, react similarly to given stimuli, the War Department insists upon segregating Negroes from whites...
...Times states indignantly that "For the most part the students thought that our policy had been to prevent immigration, to send them missionaries, and exploit her." It all depends on the point of view, and emphases differ. A number of Harvard Faculty men say they would give credit for those "errors...
...Norman describes himself as "a Socialist in the British Labour Party or the American New Deal sense of the term," admits that "Socialists differ . . as to what Socialism really is." Safely unSocialist is his view of the causes and cures of World War II. Let the People Know attempts to convince "the average busy citizen" that wars are not caused by capitalists, vested interests, empires, divisions into Haves and Havenots. Wars come, he believes, because ordinary men are mis-educated, prejudiced. They come, especially, because man is nationalistically minded...
Boas wrote, in a letter to TIME in 1936: "The assumption of the biological homogeneity of any race is a fiction. Every race contains many family strain? which are biologically distinct. . . . The physiological and psychological behavior of the individual depends only in part upon his hereditary characteristics. These differ widely within every population and are strongly overlaid by outer, cultural influences which modify the hereditary traits. . . . Personality cannot be assumed to be determined by the so-called racial groups ... but is a matter that must be determined individually...
Regulations concerning the two upper classes differ from those concerning Freshman and Sophomores since Juniors and Seniors are engaged in more advanced work and tutorial. Many of them are preparing for General Examinations in January...