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Ferguson said that a 2-1 ratio would limit the exchange to three Houses and force "the maximum amount of disruption in these Houses" with five-ninths of the selected Houses having new members...
Chances for the Dunster House proposal to pass seem very low. May said last night that "the Radcliffe administration has figured thus far that the maximum number [of girls who can move to Harvard] is 440." This figure, he said, is fixed so that freshmen Cliffies will not be the only ones left at Radcliffe...
There are currently 1025 Cliffies living on campus. If the maximum 440 moved to the Houses there would be 585 Cliffies left, 300 of whom would be freshmen...
...factors condemning Negroes to poverty, he argued, was the unstable matriarchy created by the absence of fathers in so many homes. When the report got into the press, blacks and whites alike hotly denounced Moynihan for emphasizing black culpability more than white discrimination. In a book published last year, Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding, he argued that the antipoverty program exemplified splendidly the failure of participatory democracy. Many of his old friends in the New Frontier were angered and appalled...
Although solar activity should be close to a maximum at this time in the sun's 11-year cycle, "the sun has been very quiet in the past few weeks," Reeves said...