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...forth the scholarship's stipulations in his will, he clearly stated that no candidate should be discriminated against on the basis of race or religion. Had Mr. Rhodes lived today, it is likely that he would have included sex in that listing. The qualities he elaborated as exhibiting "manhood" included courage, honor and concern for one's fellow man--terms that make it clear Mr. Rhodes was speaking of manhood in its generic and not in its genetic sense...
Harvard yesterday broke with a 71-year-old tradition by endorsing women applicants for the Rhodes Scholarship, restricted by law since its founding to candidates who exhibit "qualities of manhood...
...quick escape from his "batty" accomplice, wheeled off on a stickup spree−and kept getting lost somewhere among the freeways. This oddest of couples−Powell wearing a joke-shop disguise, Smith petrified that the pistol stuck in his belt might go off and destroy his manhood−made one U-turn too many and were stopped by a pair of plainclothesmen...
There is a stunning discovery to be made when one leaves. A wilderness exists beyond adolescence, waiting to be tamed. The child must pioneer his own manhood, the future is his whether he likes...
...long ago, "until certain basic institutions of our society are changed. Which is all the more reason why the black woman can ill afford to become the silent woman, content with cooking soul food and making incoherent baby talk at the dinner table in the name of black manhood." Most black women do not take issue with that view. But, like Chicago Poet Gwendolyn Brooks, they do not believe that ardent feminism is the logical alternative. Says Brooks: "Today's black men, at last flamingly assertive and proud, need their black women beside them, not organizing against them...