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Dean Fox decided in July to reverse course and submit answers to a questionnaire sent out by the Brown group, but only after an initial refusal by Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III became public. Fox explained that Harvard originally assuried that the Ivy League would uphold a tradition of cooperating with only two national college guides, one published by the College Board and one by a private firm. He also criticized the research techniques of the Brown group and charged that questionnaires for administrators and students were based on "segregationist and separatist assumptions that special, separate services...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: What You Missed | 9/17/1982 | See Source »

...altogether silly note, several male high schoolers at the summer session did their best to uphold the fine traditions of Camp Harvard by opening a women's leg shaving service in their Weld Hall suite. The Weld Penthouse Shaving Society was founded on the premise that some female students were "too lazy" to take care of the job themselves, and it was apparently well-received by amused Weld women. One shaver said that he and his associates had provide their non-pront service to at least 20 customers...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: What You Missed | 9/17/1982 | See Source »

Dean Fox decided in July to reverse course and submit answers to a questionnaire sent out by the Brown group, but only after an initial refusal by Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III became public. Fox explained that Harvard originally assumed that the Ivy League would uphold a tradition of cooperating with only two national college guides, one published by the College Board and one by a private firm. He also criticized the research techniques of the Brown group and charged that questionnaires for administrators and students were based on "segregationist and separatist assumptions...that special, separate services...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: What You Missed | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...altogether silly note, several male high Schoolers at the summer session did their best to uphold the fine traditions of Camp Harvard by opening a women's leg shaving service in their Weld Hall suite. The Weld Penthouse Shaving Society was founded on the premise that some female students were "too lazy" to take care of the job themselves, and it was apparently well-received by amused Weld women. One shaver said that he and his associates had provided their non-profit service to at least 20 customers...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: What You Missed | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...character. He feels his claws growing, a furtive and dejected, an impudent and servile look creeps into his eyes. His lips become thin, sharp, Jesuitical, his nose pinched and sharp, his nostrils dilated and bloodless; his knees sag, his arms grow long, and dangle gorilla-like. Those who uphold the Theory of Race and deny the influence of environment on the development of the human being should spend a year in prison and observe themselves daily in a mirror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: United States Penitentiary | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

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