Word: inferiority
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This, indeed, is the issue. As long as Harvard and Radcliffe students have separate residences, male-female House Committees with remain infeasible, not because women are inferior but because they have no stake in the Harvard House system. The way to "put some life into co-education" is not to install women on committees where under the present system they have no justified place, but to work to change through study and planning an unnatural system...
...genetic populations we call races no doubt have different distributions of whatever genes influences psychological processes. We are in no position to guess, however, which pools are "inferior." Such a comparison is not meaningful, except in terms of the probability that the member of the group will be able to cope in some specific way with some specific challenge, after he has developed for a specified period in some specified environment...
...short, no one really knows whether the minds of blacks and whites are genetically different. If they are, the words "inferior" and "superior" have no meaning when applied to such differences, and the differences say nothing about the potential intelligence of the two groups. And finally, the differences themselves could change or disappear over time...
Yale's victory was a shocker since Harvard had trounced the Elis, 7-2, a week before. While there was nothing at stake in the game, it was the Crimson's only loss of the season to a markedly inferior team...
...Harvard. Their suggestions are premised on a liberal assumption: the university is "a neutral haven" for scholarship, in which all points of view are objectively examined. In this community of scholars, all pursuing a "liberal education," the military has no place; what one learns in ROTC courses is of inferior intellectual quality and involves a technical training rather than an academic discipline...