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Pusey's views originated in Harvard's modern period. President A. Lawrence Lowell, who began that period as Harvard President in 1909, insisted on cultivating a Jeffersonian aristocracy of merit. Lowell's Harvard pursued high academic standards and had cosmopolitan aims; but had little racial diversity. It was Lowell who gave us the collegiate institutions to help us forge a common experience, break down class and regional divisions and work harmoniously within a faculty-driven culture...
Under President James B. Conant, Lowell's successor, efforts were made to extend the principle of selection by merit. The College sought talent nationwide through its admissions program, admitting on merit, regardless of financial need. My mentor, John Usher Munro, Dean of Harvard College (who resigned in the late 1960s to teach in a Black college in Alabama), told me about the early days of national recruiting. He and others would take the trains in Chicago and elsewhere, visiting schools and homes to identify talented students and to persuade parents, most of whom had never attended college, to let their...
...Director Dr. David S. Rosenthal '59 refuted the allegations yesterday. He said the UHS safety committee reviewed the complaints outlined in the OSHA letter and found them to be without merit...
...explored the lives of Americans with jobs that seemed like long-term marriages, frustrating, satisfying, boring, rewarding: familiar, anyway, and built on a rock foundation. Careers had a kind of narrative line. It began with something like apprenticeship and then, in the ideal model, proceeded through hard work and merit to raises, promotions, success and eventual retirement with pension. Seniority and experience meant something: work was as close as Americans came to the Confucian. Getting fired was a disgrace, the scarlet letter...
...original goals of affirmative action are necessary and fundamentally good. But when the policy is overzealously applied, as we believe it has been, these noble goals are debased. Such abuses merit close examination and intelligent debate so that they do not undermine the beneficial effects that affirmative action is designed to achieve...