Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Above all else, black students in the pre--1960s era grasped the fundamental significance of broad-gauged interaction and success-oriented relationships available at top-rank colleges such as Harvard. They also recognized something that other upwardly mobile students from stigmatized white ethnic groups such as Jews and Catholics grasped equally well--that elite colleges play a disproportionately large role in training those Jews, Catholics, and blacks who compete for leading national or cosmopolitan positions in business, science, scholarship, politics, law and medicine...
...this situation can be seen in statistics for the period 1920s-1940s. For example, although barely 10 per cent of blacks in college during these years attended white institutions, some 227 of the 525 blacks (43 per cent) who received doctoral degrees in these years got their grounding in success orientation at top-rank white schools such as Harvard. This was true, for example, of virtually all the black professional historians and social scientists of this period (for example, Carter Woodson--University of Chicago; Rayford Logan--Williams College; Allison Davis--Williams College; John Aubrey Davis--Williams College; Robert Weaver--Harvard...
...look at the postgraduate study of black Harvard graduates provides another view of the unique success-pattern among blacks at Harvard in the pre-1960s era. Of some 232 black Harvard graduates for whom data is available for the years from 1920 to the early 1960s, at least 55 per cent entered graduate or professional schools. And if those students who entered government service as bureaucrats are included--for most of them had postgraduate training--then the proportion of black graduates going to advanced study in the pre-1960s era is nearer to 70 per cent. This is comparable...
This, of course, is simply self-serving mythmaking on the part of today's blacks at white colleges, many of whom do not display the discipline and seriousness toward achievement and toward exploiting success-patterns at Harvard and elsewhere on a scale comparabale to the pre-1960s blacks at white schools. Such myth-makiing (based upon no hard evidence about the occupational and mobility patterns of yesterday's graduates of Harvard) serves the unfortunate function of shielding black students from the no-win implications of their black solidarity isolation--especially their isolation from broad-guaged interactions with their white peers...
...years have seen some dissolution of the no-win ethnic solidarity patterns among Harvard blacks, the attenuation of this behavior has still not gone far enough. Nor will this occur until we have more of those black students who exploit and make use of the vast variety of superior success-patterns that prevail at top-rank white colleges...