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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lorentz curve comparing the national income figure to those of Harvard students (and also to the tuition-less City college of New York and the national collegiate average) shows how Harvard's income distributions differs from the rest of the country. A number called the Gini Index shows how unequally the total goods of the nation are divded up among the total population. The most the Gini number can equal is 1. If the number is 1, then the person in question has all the goods in question (in this case, representation in Harvard's student body). For Harvard...

Author: By Jeff Seder, | Title: 'Fair Harvard' -- Who's Here And Why? | 12/18/1968 | See Source »

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