Word: miltonic
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Somewhere in the course of Rudenstine's report (about p. 45) the idea of diversity as inherited from the past is suddenly transformed into the new, multicultural idea of representation. The liberal heroes he quotes in support of diversity--John Milton and John Stuart Mill--had no thought that diversity might require proportional representation of ethnic groups. Certainly not! For them true diversity was above all diversity of opinion, and that was the product of a few people who stand on their own feet, who do not bow to public opinion, or look to role models, or need the support...
Several months ago, a man named Milton Kleim posted a Call For Votes (CFV) to several newsgroups in the Usenet hierarchy. An individual wishing to start a new newsgroup writes a CFV describing the proposed group and the rationale for its creation and then sends it to existing newsgroups whose readers might be interested in discussing the proposed topic. Individuals read the proposal and then send votes to a volunteer vote-collector who tallies them. The vote results are completely non-binding; as mentioned, every institution can decide for itself which newsgroups it wishes to maintain. This voting process...
...went to Milton Academy--a boarding school nearby--for high school and spent most of my time just practicing with the team. Sometimes I would head into Boston to work with a coach. I wasn't only focused on tennis and I tried to find balance with the rest of my life...
President Neil L. Rudenstine's new report on "Diversity and Learning," spanning the years 1993 to 1995, is an immaculately written and researched piece of work. It begins with Mill and Milton and goes on to discuss the views of Harvard presidents on the subject of diversity. It even makes for interesting reading...
DuBois played in a boys' league when she was little, and then she graduated to a co-ed team a few years later. She then spent three years playing on a competitive girl's club team before entering high school. DuBois was lucky enough to attend a boarding school, Milton Academy, that had a women's hockey team...