Word: second-class
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Another priority Rusk cited is relieving graduate students' feeling that they are second-class citizens at Harvard...
...random lottery is, on the whole, fairer than a last-in, first-out policy that excludes all freshmen. Freshmen may need a course as a prerequisite, or to test out a potential field of concentration, and should not be considered second-class citizens. But juniors and seniors are rightfully annoyed by being turned away from classes they will have no other opportunity to take. Although it can be argued that these students have had previous opportunities to enroll in the courses, the "last chance" appeal is a compelling one, particularly for new offerings...
...long as identifiable racial and ethnic groups are given extra assistance, the suspicion will exist that minority employees who make it have not done so on their own. They will be considered less qualified than people who were not given similar help. Ironically, the black executive is relegated to second-class status by the programs that seek to elevate...
...Brains. Justice Holmes called Franklin Roosevelt "a second-class intellect but a first-class temperament." The President needs superior intelligence (at least a B from Holmes) but need not be brilliant, deep or bh'ndingly original. He needn't be an intellectual, and we have not been threatened with one lately...
...Siberia, USSR. Troll women in scarves and boots refill water tanks on train. Read every page of Time (People first): Wash hair in second-class sinkroom with Eddy (black suds). Stand at window and sing first verses of camp songs...