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...first scenario, the ideal from Bok's and Counter's points of view, the Foundation attracts participation from both minority and majority students. The Foundation works as a sort of cultural and intellectual clearinghouse, fostering greater understanding among the races and giving Harvard another proud accomplishment to point to in its ongoing attempts at pioneering...
...second, less palatable scenario, the Foundation starts strongly but loses momentum as it becomes clear that white students don't want to use the Foundation's resources to learn more about minorities and that Third World students think their time is better spent in political mobilization or in the libraries. The Foundation doesn't grow, but impatience does. Its funding is withdrawn after a few years, and the president of Harvard makes a regrettable statement calling the Foundation a noble, but unsuccessful, venture...
...third and most distasteful scenario, the Foundation never gets off the ground but continues to flounder along, co-sponsoring speeches and the like but never becoming significant enough to outgrow the single office it maintains in University Hall. Third World students and white students show no real interest, but the Foundation offers a ready excuse for those members of the community who wish to rebut the notion that Harvard does nothing for its minorities. The presence of the Foundation furnishes a convenient excuse for those of this ilk to shunt aside minority concerns and avoid confronting the issue head...
Despite the dramatic appeal, only a handful of Faculty members spoke at that meeting. One of them, Harvey C. Mansfield, professor of Government, asked the Faculty to consider the following scenario (as recorded in the minutes of the February 10 meeting): "A woman, born with a silver spoon in her mouth, grew up to be unspeakably beautiful and married a man as rich and as handsome as Otto Eckstein. She attended Brearley School, Radcliffe College, and she got a Ph.D. from Harvard. Then when she went on the job market, she was not considered as an individual with her merits...
DIED. Anita Loos, 88, pert, witty screenwriter, playwright and novelist who became an international celebrity after the publication of her 1925 spoof of sex and materialism, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; in New York City. A former child actress, Loos sold her first film scenario to D.W. Griffith in 1912, thus beginning a four-decade Hollywood career that ranged from devising captions for silent films (a form she invented) to creating sparkling dialogue for such movies as San Francisco (1936) and The Women (1939). A diminutive (4 ft. 11 in.), tirelessly convivial figure who considered boredom "a more acute pain than...