Word: orly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The University is actively involved in an effort to secure qualified Negro students, he continued, and is "even paying to prepare several to enter the college by sending them to preparatory schools in New England. To my knowledge, the only quota or limit placed upon a Negro's entry into...
Replying to the Englishman's charge, Kilson asserted that "things have either changed quite radically at Harvard since I left there in June, 1959, or else Mr. Hawke's information is about a decade out of date."
"As for Jewish students," wrote Kilson, "I believe that they constitute about 25 per cent or so of the Harvard student population, and I do not recall, during my stay at Harvard, any serious criticism of the University for having a discriminatory policy towards Jewish students."
For the past ten years, Harvard's Economic Research Project has been perfecting a unique analytical tool developed by Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Lee Professor of Economics. Input-output or inter-industry analysis, as the tool is known, evolved from a search by Leontief for a way to apply economic...
In Germany during the middle dle twenties, Leontief studied what he considered one of the greatest problems in economics, that of relating abstract theory to actual fact. "Too often," he explained, "one group of people makes the theories while another assembles the facts." His early work was done in "partial...