Word: uses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...administration is short on new ideas, it should be able to use its experience to implement the ideas of its more forward looking students. What sort of changes come to Wellesley should not, as Miss Adams likes to say, depend entirely on the students...
...symbolic level, the bus is one of several manifestations of a current and growing spirit toward greater equality and togetherness between Harvard and Radcliffe, and it is on this level that those who do not ordinarily use the bus should support it. The on-campus Cliffe faces the continuous disadvantage of being nearly a mile away from the hub of campus life. The bus, as such, is a tangible attempt to bridge an unjust gap. As to the practicability of eliminating the inequity completely by instituting an all-day bus system, I know not; but certainly the night...
...second concept which the Committee on Houses should have aired more thoroughly is that of consumer surplus tied in with the possible inelasticity of demand. What the terms boil down to is that the students who have used the bus may think it worthwhile to pay another nickle or so per ride to insure its continuation. As long as enough students continued to use the bus despite a rise in price, the money collected in fares would come a lot closer to meeting costs. Although ideally the bus service should be continued unchanged, such a compromise may be the only...
What exactly does a prep school education mean in terms of activities and performance at Harvard? To compare preppies and pubbies (public school graduates) we can use the exhaustive data of the Harvard Student Body Center. The data is slightly misleading because "elite" public schools such as Newton High are thrown in with the other public schools. Boston area public schools like Newton receive the same preferential treatment as prep schools. This tends to reduce the statistical gap between pubbies and preppies...
...been said of me in childhood by those by whom I had been taught to pray, both white and black, and in whom I had the greatest confidence, that I had too much sense to be raised, and if I was, I would never be of any use to any one as a slave. Now finding I had arrived to man's estate, and was a slave, and these revelations being made known to me, I began to direct my attention to this great object, to fulfill the purpose for which, by this time, I felt assured I was intended...