Word: microcosms
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...Harvard goes to great expense to recruit a diversified class, and we think that the Houses should reflect as much as possible a microcosm of the College," Quincy House Master Michael Shinagel said...
...example, large and spacious rooms, presumably to be occupied by wealthy students, were placed next to small ones in order to force the interaction that wouldn't take place if rich students were permitted to isolate themselves. Second, the Houses were to be representative. Lowell called them "a microcosm of the University," implying that they would each serve as cross-sections of the diversity of life in the College as a whole. Finally, they were to be social above all else. Their value, particularly as a vehicle for equality, was in the interaction they would foster between different students...
...breath of the University are as inseparable from its academic bent as the actions of the expatriates in Casablanca are from the war. Whether we are for or against academia, politics or the Free French, the stage has been set. Randomizing Houses with the goal of creating "a microcosm of the Harvard community" within each building is an admirable goal, but it is far from the whole story...
...arguments for and against smaller maximum blocking-group sizes are varied. Quincy House Master Michael Shinagel wrote in an e-mail message that, after randomization, "each House should be a 'microcosm' of the College in terms of diversity...
...years, computer science students have been on computers and sharing infrastructure," he says. "You can look at that as a microcosm of what was going to happen when everyone got online...