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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tense discussion of "Politics and Economic Welfare," James L. Adams, Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Professor of Divinity, told the Divinity School Forum last night that he had decided "simply to ignore" an earlier Forum guest, the Rev. Edward A. Opitz, who defended the "Moral Basis of Capitalism...
...Business School may admit women for the first time in its history, under a new proposal passed Tuesday by the Faculty of Business Administration...
...question of the "diamond in the rough" has caused many furrowed brows among Harvard admissions officials in the past few decades. One of the more difficult cases settled by the Admissions Committee last week concerned a straight-A student from a small Negro high school (74 in the graduating class) in North Carolina. Judging by his demonstrated leadership and by his secondary school record, he was an ideal candidate for admission. Being colored also gave him a definite advantage, since non-whites are given preference over equally-qualified white students. One fact kept this student out of Harvard...
...these borderline decisions is almost certain to increase in the future. Dean Monro is actively campaigning for a program of proselytizing and emphasizing the worth of college. Several times he has called for "recruitment" of college-worthy students from low-income areas, students who rarely go beyond secondary school and who lack the preparation provided by college-oriented high schools and prep schools. Harvard thus seems to be playing one hand against the other: first, encouraging applications from ill-prepared students; and second, having to deny or question seriously admitting these applicants...
Experiments with rats, malformed by exposure to intense radiation during embryonic development, have made possible great strides towards finding a possible future cure for cerebral palsy, it was learned yesterday. Samuel P. Hicks, Associate Clinical Professor of Pathology, conducts the experiments at the Medical School, and in ten years has gained much new knowledge of the development of the mammalian nervous system...