Word: maintain
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...intellectual curiosity and open-mindedness, a lack of preconceptions, that appears to be naive." What the graduates of 1928 were to do with this intellectual curiosity, however, accorded ill with the egalitarian, humanist principles expounded in the classrooms. Most of the professors, Bromage and many of her classmates maintain, had the assumption that their women students would meet good husbands, Harvard men perhaps--and what better fate than that? "It was unthought of that we should go out and do something--we might be bright women to have around but we were never seriously considered as competitors," Bromage adds...
...this involvement is the long-held French view that the economic destinies of Europe and Africa are inextricably linked; Europe lacks adequate natural resources to survive, and Africa is the obvious source. For this reason French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing is prepared to take occasional military action to maintain African stability. "We cannot oppose cannons with cannons or bazookas with bazookas," says a ranking French official, "but it is amazing how much you can do with a little push in the right place at the right time...
...charge is still only half of what it costs to educate each student. A $57 million endowment and $600,000 in annual alumni giving make up the difference. In 1976 the school also began a $50 million fund-raising campaign. Andover needs the money, says Headmaster Theodore Sizer, to maintain diversity and excellence in an era of high inflation and soft stock markets. A boyish-looking former dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Education, Sizer, 45, remembers that, as an undergraduate at Yale in the early '50s, he "frankly resented" Andover boys. "They came arms linked," says...
...roads, European cafes and restaurants. African mine workers, of course, still live in overcrowded one-and two-room shacks. Although the older mines are now nominally owned by Zaire, there are only a handful of Africans in management positions. New mining investments by Japanese and South African firms maintain the same pattern: Never hire an African for an upper-level job when an expatriate can be imported...
Roger W. Ferguson '73, a member of the Black Alumni Coordinating Group, the sponsor of the convention, said yesterday the goals of the convention were to make black alumni familiar with important minority developments at Harvard, enable alumni to exchange ideas with each other, maintain contact between black alumni and enable them to meet other blacks...