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...Arthur R. Jensen in the current issue of the Harvard Educational Review. But Jensen, 45, an educational psychologist at the University of California in Berkeley, chose to build on such postulates some less plausible ones of his own. He argues that in some ways the American black is intellectually inferior to the American white. And he suggests that the explanation lies not so much in the Negro's deprived environment as in his genes...
...REST of the difficulties with a merger are a good deal more prosaic. How, for instance, can 800-900 Harvard undergraduates be persuaded to move up a Radcliffe? Perhaps enthusiasm for the idea of coed living will carry a few pioneers up to the inferior quarters at the 'Cliffe and the first two male freshmen stuck in a double in Briggs won't know what hit them. But already a number of House Masters sense a large gap between the number of Harvard students who support coeducational living in theory and the number who would be willing to move...
...Ford calls 'a dignified choice," between the two kinds of housing will have to be worked out though, as well the difficulty of determining which houses go coed and which stay all-male House assignments have always been somewhat arbitrary and when some of the living quarters become clearly inferior that process could cause a great deal more friction than it has in the past...
...purposes but also observing all the comings and goings. Everyone knows who everyone else spends time with and talks about it in the interest of friendship. Some girls pick their dates for their friends rather than themselves. Girls who don't go out at all feel miserable and inferior. They are instantly typed...
...future, in his new location, Samshak is optimistic. He has no doubt of the quality of his theatre ("Artistically speaking, there are few theatres in Boston we feel inferior to."), and he is certain that if he can only get his troupe into the public eye, the financial problems will work themselves...