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In the CRIMSON on Saturday, December 14, I was quoting as predicting that "students would be regular members of all faculty committees by June" in the Law School. I made no such prediction.
Contrary to popular undergraduate belief, Harvard's most striking feature is not the diversity of its students. In Loewen's study, almost one-half of Harvard's undergraduates said that what they liked most about their college was its supposed diversity. However, former dean of admissions William J. Bender made...
Bender's prediction is coming true. Student fees have risen $1500 since 1961, and now are $3800 a year. Next term they will rise another $400. To an average citizen earning the national median income of $7400, that is a horrifying amount. Yet according to the Harvard Student Study Center...
Just before the start of the 1960s, Edward N. Cole, then a General Motors vice president, exuberantly forecast that before the decade was over Detroit would sell 10 million cars in a year. Cole has since been promoted to the presidency of the world's biggest manufacturer, partly because...
And Last: Praise and a Prediction Based on a Past Performance