Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University is actively involved in an effort to secure qualified Negro students, he continued, and is "even paying to prepare several to enter the college by sending them to preparatory schools in New England. To my knowledge, the only quota or limit placed upon a Negro's entry into Harvard is found in the low economic status of Negroes generally and in the poor educational facilities available to many Negroes...
Replying to the Englishman's charge, Kilson asserted that "things have either changed quite radically at Harvard since I left there in June, 1959, or else Mr. Hawke's information is about a decade out of date...
...student at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at Oxford University, Kilson stated, "I happen to know personally one of the Harvard administrators responsible for admission (as a Negro student I was quite interested in this question), and I can assure you that for Harvard's part there is not one iota of discrimination in admitting Negro students...
...Jewish students," wrote Kilson, "I believe that they constitute about 25 per cent or so of the Harvard student population, and I do not recall, during my stay at Harvard, any serious criticism of the University for having a discriminatory policy towards Jewish students...
...past ten years, Harvard's Economic Research Project has been perfecting a unique analytical tool developed by Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Lee Professor of Economics. Input-output or inter-industry analysis, as the tool is known, evolved from a search by Leontief for a way to apply economic theory to a factual analysis of the entire national economy...