Word: scholarshipped
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Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles says the Verba report allows the decision deadline to be postponed. Both he and Rudenstine say they wanted to allow the early admission candidates to make their decisions with confidence in the scholarship funding...
...scholarship from the ViolinSociety of America subject to the fact that youcontinue to take violin lessons and the violinsociety discriminated against certain kinds ofpeople," Green said, "we wouldn't have any problemwith that...
Harvard and other universities across the nation are suffering from a rapidly advancing malaise--an overdose of ethnic separatism that is poisoning true scholarship and perverting our understanding of what it is to be American...
...toss around terms like "multiculturalism," but we no longer know what they mean. Indeed, our definitions have become distorted, twisted around. Once we spoke of assimilation and a "melting pot;" now, a new breed of scholarship emphasizes a curious form of academic segregation. Where once we studied and learned American history, now we study Afro-American, Asian-American and other ethnically-defined histories. And we do it in the name of multiculturalism...
...lion's share of credit for the success of the program, using Harvard's resources and his own reputation to lure well-established professor from other universities to Cambridge. In light of the serious problems confronting many other African-American studies departments across the country--including allegations of shoddy scholarship, anti-Semitism and politicized teaching--the achievements of Harvard's program are even more remarkable...