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...letter--signed by L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of Admissions and Financial Aids, and Alberta Arthurs, dean of Admissions, Financial Aids and Women's Education at Radcliffe--charges that Kilson's conclusions "are far too negative in tone and simply fail to fit the facts...
...Jewett-Arthurs letter stated that "probably 75 per cent or more" of Harvard's black students come from middleclass backgrounds and that "those few students who are admitted here from poorer backgrounds tend to outperform their more traditionally prepared classmates...
...Jewett and Arthurs also joined several other critics of the Kilson article--including the Harvard Afro-American Students' Association and the dean of the College at Princeton University--in disputing the accuracy of some of the statistics Kilson quoted...
Weese is convinced that renovation almost always costs less than leveling old buildings and constructing anew. Boston's old Jewett Theater, an intimate Georgian structure, would have cost at least $5,000,000 to replace. Boston University is spending $400,000 to fix it up. Even less striking buildings are worth refurbishing. Weese is currently starting a project, funded by the Federal Housing Administration, to rehabilitate an elegant, old three-story walk-up apartment house in a Chicago slum. "You can't duplicate it today," he says. "Saving this kind of building saves a bit of the urban...
...This is an opportunity for the two schools to benefit from each other's experience," Jewett said yesterday. He noted that Bracken will help Harvard institute an early-indication system for its applicants next year, similar to the one which now exists at Princeton...