Word: procession
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...half years' earnings. Harvard's reply is that almost anyone can attend if he is accepted (i.e., "has the ability). This is an important claim for it states that once applications are in, once socio-economic factors have done their work and it's Harvard's turn, the process is a meritocracy. The Admissions Office has basked up this statement. The only way to test it is to look at the applicant group as a whole, ad to compare those who came to those who didn...
What does all this mean? Is Harvard responsible? Is al this so partly because of Harvard's policies, conscious or unconscious? We have to start by looking at Harvard's admission process...
With the identification process this haphazard, it would be outrageous for the ad board to expel the selected group they say they saw. Even students who have no sympathy with the protest would be disgusted by this kind of divide-and-conquer tactic...
What has happened, I think, is more a continual process of perfecting a chosen, magical language than a process of abandoning the past...
Then I decided that somewhere in the buying and selling room of the library which keeps seven million other books someone slapped this bookplate in this particular book on the basis of a decision-making process that was essentially random. But since the two had now been living together so closely for so long, I reasoned they must have come to share with each other some of their own individual meanings...