Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last September's decision to place a moratorium on the admission of male transfer students came in response to the overcrowded condition of the Houses. Nineteen women transfers were accepted, but a limit of ten was placed on the number who were expected to live on campus...
...annual limit on playing on tour, not to exceed 30 days per person...
...Race Three was cancelled twice, first due to lack of visibility before the start and later because of lack of wind. The race committee called the second effort after the two boats had spent all afternoon drifting about the Sound with no hope of finishing before the designated time limit...
...predominantly white city school committee had disobeyed a state law prohibiting schools from having student bodies that are more than 50% nonwhite. Boston's public school population of 94,000 is 40% nonwhite, but 80 of the city's 200 public schools exceeded the 50% nonwhite limit. Rather than desegregate schools, the committee had even willingly given up $65 million in state and federal funds in 1973. But last June Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity ordered the city to balance the racial composition of those 80 schools by transferring about 45,000 students. The plan required forced busing...
...Simply to talk of "non-discriminatory" in an institution intent on enrolling more men than women is naive. Harvard's applicant pool is so over-qualified that any numerical limit on acceptances means arbitrary choice. The question centers on the principles that will guide such choices. Harvard's past practice demonstrates that, if possible, sexism will be one of those principles...