Word: simpson
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Harvard Law School has cut the number of people it will admit to the Class of 1973 by more than one-fourth. Russell A. Simpson, director of Admissions, said yesterday...
Several factors, some of which are related to the draf, have caused the reduction, Simpson said...
...people most hurt by this change were those put on the hold list who, from past years, might have expected that their chances for admission were good. "We put people in the hold category this year that in other years would have been admitted," Simpson explained. He attributed this situation to th? decrease in places and an in crease in the quality of applicants...
...Simpson described the higher quality of those seeking admittance to the Law School as the result of "a clear decrease in the interest of students in graduate study leading to professorial work." He noted that many students who might have pursued teaching careers in the past are now applying to Law School because they "want a more active role in changing society...
Even in the Deep South, blacks are uniting on the local level to assert their economic strength against the white-dominated status quo. In central Mississippi, for example, some 400 blacks have joined the Simpson County Civic League to operate a low-rent housing project, purchase fertilizer in mass amounts to reduce operating costs for about 100 black farmers, and open a cooperative grocery store to lower prices...