Word: doned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this so? Socio-economic factors beyond Harvard's control make education something the poor get less of--fewer poor people are prepared for a college education. More important, they don't even apply to college. This is, however, only one possible explanation for Harvard's elitism. What can be done about it? Should something be done about...
...bother trying to meet the costs representing two and one-half years' earnings. Harvard's reply is that almost anyone can attend if he is accepted (i.e., "has the ability). This is an important claim for it states that once applications are in, once socio-economic factors have done their work and it's Harvard's turn, the process is a meritocracy. The Admissions Office has basked up this statement. The only way to test it is to look at the applicant group as a whole, ad to compare those who came to those who didn...
...PAINTING BE DONE FROM INSIDE THE CANVAS...
...CURRENT problems of the Israeli Arabs are both economic and social, for in neither respect are they well-integrated into the rest of the population. According to Eisenstadt, they are divided into three sectors: the farmers and landowners, who, "if they started out with land, have done well," the "agricultural proletariat" of the villages, who have no trouble finding jobs in their own communities but are not well-to-do and are "not in a good situation," and the professionals. Members of the last group who find positions within Arab communities do very well, but sometimes the Arab intelligentsia...
...Press, $1.95). All of the criticisms are worth reading closely, the most incisive being those by Lerone Bennett, Vincent Harding and Mike Thelwell. The writers are thorough going and competent; among them they do a far more definitive delineation of the book's absurdities and fabrications than I have done here. I recommend them to your attention...