Word: non
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...article, written as part of a larger series tackling the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education school segregation decision, perhaps typifies the racial attitudes of the times. The article, headlined "Only Individual Bias Exists at Harvard," concluded that, "all in all, Harvard's admissions policy for Negroes is an non-discriminatory as the University itself is to Negroes studying here...
Townsend acknowledges the program is more "non-traditional" than what he mighthave faced at Washington University in St. Louis,but says the demands, as well as the location, arewhat make Duke attractive. Harvard, he says, gavehim a chance to try many activities while buildinga solid academic record, and the pattern of studyshould not be broken...
...Such non-comprehension is probably to be expected. After all, Harvard is filled with people who have been gunning for years for Harvard Med or Yale Law, who applied to 23 fellowships or who bought suits for on-campus recruiting sophomore year. While I remain fully confused, with the raw materials of my life scattered around me, they are building their little worlds. They have a job, a place to live, a new routine ready to swallow them up and spin them around a few times. They are ready to disappear into these worlds, populated by a few friends...
...aftermath of a string of club closings to non-members--all at the behest of graduate boards--final club members say a change is coming...
...undergraduates in recent years have turned the gentlemen's clubs into institutions more like fraternities at other schools, focusing more on drinking and parties with female non-members...