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Last year, a group of students decided that Ayn Rand's objectivist ideas should be receiving more attention on the Harvard campus...
...many years, the Objectivist Club--devoted to promoting the philosophy Rand founded--had been inactive, with membership declining to fewer than 10 students...
...last spring, a few of the club's remaining members, including current club President Joseph C. Anderson '99, sought information from the Ayn Rand Foundation about the philosopher's work...
Club leaders and the institute's campus clubs director discussed the possibility of co-sponsoring an event and were eventually able to arrange the lecture series "Ayn Rand Comes to Harvard...
...while enrollment has declined, academic performance has not. Numerous studies show that Catholic-school kids do better than their public-school counterparts in reading and math. A 1990 report by the Rand Corp., for instance, found that low-income parochial-school students averaged 803 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test, compared with a 642 average in regional public schools. The Catholic-school hierarchy is counting on the spread of vouchers to reverse a long drop in enrollments. Already, non-Catholics make up 13.2% of Catholic-school enrollment, thanks to parents who know a good thing when they...