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...proposal closely resembles a recommendation drafted by a sub-committee of the CHUL Monday. The recommendation for next year states that the number of women in the five "good" ratio houses must not exceed a balance of three men to one woman. This ratio will remain static in subsequent years allowing the other Harvard houses to equalize gradually...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Bunting Endorses Unequal Female Distribution | 3/22/1972 | See Source »

There are personality differences between the sexes too. Although no trait is confined to one sex-there are women who exceed the male average even in supposedly masculine characteristics-some distinctions turn up remarkably early. At New York University, for example, researchers have found that a female infant stops sucking a bottle and looks up when someone comes into the room; a male pays no attention to the visitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Male & Female: Differences Between Them | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

...attempt to escape by plunging beneath it. Impulse to action-no hesitation in between, no regret afterward-is the romantic dream of those who envy animals and madmen. But man thinks almost as naturally as he feels. Would-be animal, would-be madman, he is doomed to exceed himself simply because he can think about exceeding himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The New Cult of Madness: Thinking As a Bad Habit | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

...letter to Hartman dated February 25, Rogers said that his committee would "approach the Faculty (at Yesterday's meeting) for permission to exceed the list of 20 names if it turns out that we cannot get five acceptances out of the first 20 this time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Design Faculty Again Reviews Hartman Case | 3/4/1972 | See Source »

...countryside. In this sense, history--drastically and brutally speeded up by the American impact--may pass the Viet Cong by. Societies are susceptible to revolution only at particular stages in their development. At the moment the rates of urbanization and of modernization in the secure rural areas exceed the rate of increase in Viet Cong strength. At a time when the South Vietnamese Army is beginning to show signs of being able to operate on its own, the Viet Cong are becoming increasingly dependent on North Viet Nam for manpower as well as supplies. A movement which once...

Author: By Samuel P. Huntington, | Title: Viet Nam: The Bases of Accommodation | 2/23/1972 | See Source »

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