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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...successor, President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, who replaced Eliot in 1909, led the movement for racially restrictive admissions at Harvard, supported by a majority of the alumni. Fearing that American political and social institutions could not survive in a heterogeneous society, Lowell attempted to enact a limit to the "proportion of Jews at the College," but was later rejected by the Overseers...

Author: By Geoffrey A. Fowler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Diversity Dilemmas | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...Dole said, the parallels between the Red Cross and other business organizations did have a limit...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dole Speaks at Business School Class Day | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...only to pull out at the last minute in fear--fear of accepting the fact that I must choose, that I cannot be everywhere and everything. I have nothing to do next year because I am not yet willing to channel myself in a direction that will mark me, limit me and steer me forever. Yes, you can quit your job. You can go back to school. You can move to a new continent. But you cannot recover the past. You cannot ever get back on the highest diving board, clean and dry, once you jump into the pool...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Facing a World of Worlds | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

This April, the College released the first set of blocking group data, which showed an upward trend in the number of large blocking groups after randomization, particularly those at or near the upper limit of 16 people. The data indi- cated that this year, there were 28 blockinggroups with the maximum number of 16 students,significantly more than in the previous threeyears...

Author: By Ariel R. Frank, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: 'We Were Tested On' | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...There were serious rules about when women could be in men's rooms...My recollection is that 8 p.m. was the limit except on Saturdays, when it may have been as late as 11," remembers John Snook...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HARVARD SQUARE LIT UP WITH WAR'S END | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

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