Word: legacyism
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In criticizing the legacy admissions policy you thus denounce the "biological accident" which made the possibility of a Harvard education reality for every one of us. Consequently, I find your denunciation of the high rate of legacy admissions utterly reprehensible.
I am writing in response to the staff editorial on legacy admissions ["No More Aristocracy," Feb. 6].
It seems reasonable to assume that these parents attempted to instill in their children a similar sense of the value of education and to provide their children with the finest possible education. I argue that it is the intellectual climate in which the children of alumni are raised, not their...
The Crimson correctly states that "When white legacies occupy a disproportionate share of spaces in the first-year class, fewer spaces can be allotted to Blacks, Asian-Americans and Hispanics." The Harvard legacy admissions policy would truly be unjust if the disproportionate admission of legacies was due solely to the...
But that trial, engineered by the ruling National Salvation Front as a means of officially burying the Ceausescu regime, instead symbolized how Ceausescu's legacy may yet poison Rumania's future. When a huge mob stormed the Front's headquarters last week shouting "Out with the Communists!," they were voicing...