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...other day, Director of University Development Thomas Reardon was trying to illustrate the success thus far of the five-year $350 million Harvard Campaign. The subject was major gifts—those in excess of $100,000—the backbone of any capital drive...
...Listings to a large extent inaccurate, but these Listings would become even less meaningful as the academic caliber of the College increased. Besides, limiting admission of students to those with the highest Predicted Rank List of Groups I or II, would discriminate against students from the poorer secondary schools, thus greatly decreasing the geographic and social distribution of the College...
...situation said that this case was neither the reason for the policy development nor the first incident of its kind, but it was unique in that the victim was willing to make her story heard. Before the 1970s, sexual harassment was not a widely-discussed topic, and thus no real Harvard policy was ever created...
...Thus began Larkin v. Grendel’s Den, a case that Tribe took to the U.S. Supreme Court in October 1982, arguing that the law violated the Establishment Clause of the First Ammendment, which guarantees the separation of Church and State. In December, the Court agreed with Tribe and ruled the law unconstitutional...
...Unfortunately, Walesa, an electrician from the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland who would later serve as the country’s president, could not set foot on U.S. soil for fear of being unable to return to his country, thus becoming the first to have his speech read in absentia at a Harvard Commencement...