Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interested in educating students who will make a distinct contribution to the nation," Bok said. "And in a country where there are so few minority persons in leading businesses, law firms, hospitals, and government agencies, we feel a minority student may be especially able to make such contributions...
...action, although he suggests that the Founding Fathers thought along somewhat libertarian lines and implemented many libertarian principles when they designed American government. The only attempt to set up a totally libertarian world occurred when a group of libertarians claimed a coral reef in the Pacific as their own nation, with hopes of filling in enough land to establish a tiny island-nation where a libertarian paradise could reign. Their hopes were demolished when an envoy of angry tribesmen from a nearby island informed them that the island was already their property...
...risk they might emulate the Faculty's sacrifice. A high-return core curriculum would be required--just in the nick of time. For if the administrators and faculty of the University were to put the first priority on attracting students to college courses of no financial return, the nation's flickering economic recovery from the recession might be doomed...
Spivak: In his recent report, Dean Rosovsky said that Harvard's recruitment and selection procedures are designed to yield a group of undergraduates as able and talented in varied ways as a nation can produce. Why should a great university in a democracy seek only to educate the ablest and the most talented in the nation...
...think that's unwise not just from our standpoint but from the government and the public standpoint as well, for two reasons. The first reason is that we feel that the process of putting together an effective class in our nation's medical schools, of making fair decisions about who will be admitted and who will not, are decisions that are better made by the admissions officers in universities than by government decree, by officials who lack the familiarity with the particular needs and problems and opportunities at our institutions. The second problem is that that particular provision was inserted...