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...beginnings, and at least up until several Faculty administration groups began redefining the purposes of the Institute in late 1972 and 1973, the Institute has been designed not only to promote graduate research, but also to invite visiting researchers to come to Harvard, to "conduct a series of extra-curricular seminars for students, both graduate and undergraduate," and to "offer...summer research grants to undergraduates at Harvard and Radcliffe." (Quotes from the "prospectus" of the Afro-American Studies Department's three-year Report...
...this year's busing costs in Boston range from $15 million to $45 million. This money could have gone toward the real improvement of the schools. The remoteness of a more distant school also has many negative effects. It makes it more difficult for students to attend off-hours extra-curricular activities, to stay after school for extra help, and to use special school facilities such as libraries or computers. The local control of parents over education is also weakened by a more distant school. The extended bus ride itself can be at best troublesome and at worst dangerous...
...staff, said "We don't want to fault a kid because of the family background she has had. Different kinds of support at home are taken into consideration along with what they've accomplished. We will take a ship-fitter's daughter who has done less in extra-curricular activities but has also held down a 20 hour a week job, before a corporation's lawyer's daughter who didn't do anything with her time...
...general. If I had less respect for the privacy of my friends, I would quote specific examples of advice which I, as a freshman, received from upperclassmen and have since, as an upperclassman, been able to pass on to freshmen (and other upperclassmen). Such advice has been academic, extra-curricular, and personal. And, I might add, much of it, having been based on prior college experience, could not have been given to me by another freshman...
...resultant restriction of the Houses to only two undergraduate classes clearly presages the death of the House system. It is often an academic necessity for seniors involved in the rigors of thesis research to withdraw for a substantial portion of the year from extra-curricular pursuits. The result, under the proposed system, would be the placing of an undue burden of organization and participation in House functions on the junior class as well as a denial of a good measure of the diversity for which Harvard so ardently strives...