Word: freshman
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...group of students is going to find itself squeezed out. Increasing the proportion of foreign students could very well mean restricting the University's efforts to bring more disadvantaged and minority students here. Will the son of a foreign government minister be given a coveted space in Harvard's freshman class at the expense of a poor Black or Hispanic trying to crawl his way up out of the ghetto...
...Davis left for Penn, where he held a number of administrative posts before becoming vice chairman. Davis also taught freshman chemistry and biochemistry courses...
...party's foremost orators suffered severely with a stutter in his youth. In freshman Latin class at a Catholic high school, recitation was particularly difficult for young Joe. "Jimmy O'Neill, a great prankster, hung me with the nickname Impedimenta, Biden recalls. "I was the impediment." Over the next few years, the youngster shook his affliction. "I forced myself. I memorized passages and practiced a cadence." Despite the speech problem, Biden had the good looks and sincere geniality that won friends. "I always knew I had the ability to persuade people," he recalls...
...hope--would argue that the doors of educational opportunity should be shut behind our generation. However, it is important to consider what is involved when a "balanced" freshman class is engineered with changing numbers of Blacks, Hispanics and Asians. The diversity principle proclaims not only that students of every sex, race, creed, color, religious group and national origin should have access to a Harvard education, but also that the individuals who fill these classifications must participate as part of the whole while remaining as unique as before...
...Harvard's main concern is with state scholarship aid and fellowship programs, a cause for which Harvard actively lobbys for both in the state and nationally. Earlier this year Harvard invited freshman state legislators to a lunch to push for more student...