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With all respect to the young man who reported my remarks at Harvard Hall (News, Feb. 23), I am not the Colonel Blimp his account makes me out to be. I did not condemn "universities" as your headline writer puts it either. I deplored the situation on liberal arts faculties...
With all respect to the young man who reported my remarks at Harvard Hall (News, Feb. 23), I am not the Colonel Blimp his account makes me out to be. I did not condemn "universities" as your headline writer puts it either. I deplored the situation on liberal arts faculties...
But the truth of the matter is that Advanced Standing is educationally unsound, and should not continue to exist in its current form, if at all. Most students realize this, which is why the vast majority of first-years who will accept Advanced Standing tomorrow will eventually rescind it. This...
This unequal access won't bring a rigid caste system a la Brave New World. The interplay between genes and environment is too complex to permit the easy fine-tuning of mind and spirit. Besides, in vitro fertilization is nobody's idea of a good time; even many affluent parents...
Indeed, I argued vigorously to all concerned that the admissions practice was unconstitutional because it was so numbers-driven and mechanical that is impermissibly resembled a quota. I viewed the School Committee's policy as a politically driven compromise, intended to preserve racial diversity while clinging as possible to the...