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...track record as a source of white-supremacist scholarship throughout the centuries and down to the present day. Many of us have been to Agassiz Theater without knowing that Louis Agassiz was a professor of zoology who asserted that the education of blacks should be based on their latent inferiority, meaning that they should be trained solely in manual labor. In an influential psychology textbook published in 1908, former Harvard social psychologist William McDougall discusses a “submission instinct” in black people, an innate need to be pushed around and exploited by others. Harvard anthropologist Ernest...
...play takes place in the fictitious village of Matoor, in the real district of Kerala at the tip of southwest India. Matoor’s population includes people of widely varying religious faiths—Hindus, Muslims and Christians—an assortment that makes for insecure relations and latent hostilities, not to mention some interesting graveyards...
...Mansfield refuses, Marah’s always got her friends. “They started out worried, but most of them have overcome that, and now love it. I think they’re all latent bikers–they just don’t have the money right now,” she says...
...Eliot, Class of 1853, said in his inaugural address more than a 100 years ago, more than anything else, a liberal education creates good citizens. And ultimately, isn’t this the measure of a great university? Not its research, its endowment, or even its history, but the latent potential of its students, who have learned the tools of citizenship under its shelter...
...specific nature of the FBI?s message, it was designed to make Americans sit up and take notice. And sit up we did: Newspapers were quick to leap on the panic bandwagon: RED ALERT, screamed the New York Post. TERRORIST ATTACKS IMMINENT, blared the Washington Post. Any latent fears were further fanned by the announcement Friday morning that an employee of NBC News in New York had tested positive for cutaneous anthrax...