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...intellectual preference as well) for certain parochial moorings--which might be race-linked for Black students, religious-linked for Jewish and Mormon students, language-linked and nationality-linked for Hispanic students, etc, etc. I did not say in my February 25 letter that as such parochial preferences were inferior to cosmopolitan ones, and if the quintet from the Black Students Association (Anthony Ball--Kenneth Johnson--Darryl Parsons--Brian Stevens--Timothy Wilkins) read attentively, they would not find in that letter what they claim I said, that I dismiss "as parochial the Church-of-Latter-Day-Saints and Hillel House...
...consequences of his beliefs makes him recant his carefree talk. But the case with which an ideology can rise and become the belief system of a diseased mind is apparent. Rupert, perhaps seldom dealing with anyone outside of intellectual circles, can freely talk in abstractions of doing away with inferior beings until he is confronted with the concrete implications of his doctrine. The fantasies brewing in Brandon's mind, meanwhile, were no doubt fueled by his lonely urban lifestyle...
...accessible to larger numbers of women--nursing Nightingale wanted women to open up a sphere of employment historically reserved exclusively for men and she also wanted to reform the nursing profession, whose standards were extremely low in the early 19th century Insisting that women were entirely responsible for their inferior position in society. Nightingale set up a training school for women nurses and enforced rigorous standards. Graduates of the Nightingale School soon built up a reputation for extreme competence This, along with the story of Nightingale's successes in the Crimean War, made nursing a much more respectable occupation that...
...Despite inferior housing arrangements and Houses. If students like a diverse House population enough that it more than compensates for inferior structures and greater isolation can von imagine how valuable diversity would be in an architecturally first-rate as Eliot or Lowell...
...look like a championship team, however. For while it's off to its best start in years (holding a 3-0 overall record). Harvard has squandered huge first-half leads in each of its three games this winter, only to scramble for unimpressive victories over supposedly inferior opponents...