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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This illustrates vividly, I think, your Essay's point that "white-oriented courses more or less ignore Negro contributions to American history and culture," that they constitute "whitewashed education." There is no discrimination against the black student who wants to play Beethoven concertos or sing opera. But for instruction in jazz or rhythm-and-blues -nothing doing! That this discrimination is cultural rather than racial is demonstrated by the fact that the young white jazz musician is no better...
...only sophomores on the Harvard team, Cooch Owen, is confident that Harvard will notch its 13th victory. "It's nice to see sophomores playing the game but I think we'll beat them 6-1," Owen said confidently...
This latter problem--which is, I think, basic--can be dealt with only quietly in reasonable analysis and discourse, over a long period of time. The immediate task, therefore, is to make clear within academic communities that revolutionaries insofar as they insist on using tactics of violence, disruption and coercion in pursuit of their goals have no rightful place, and will not be tolerated. If academic communities are to survive--or at any rate are to survive healthy and free--they must insist on this primary requirement of their existence...
...Senators started winning. And now, after unheard of success by Penn teams in competition with Harvard, coach Harry Parker sent his heavyweight crew out to right matters. Equality can be a good thing, but when Harvard starts losing to the Quakers in all manner of sports, I think things have gone...
Perhaps, in America, where most people think women belong in the home and on PTA committees, women need extra boosts, when they want to try careers, because they lack self-confidence. One of the directors at the Institute remarked that the Scholars seemed to need encouragement more than anything else. Certainly they get his at the Institute. When I asked her how the Scholars were chosen, she said that the women who needed the Institute most, including some who would benefit greatly from a boost in confidence, were usually the ones picked...