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...Memorial Hall E--F Science Center E G--K Science Center B L--O Science Center C P--R Science Center D S--V Jefferson 250 W--Z Science Center Mathematics 21b Sackler Lecture Hall Social Analysis 38 Sever 113 Statistics 100 Harvard 202 TUESDAY JANUARY 15 VI, XVII, XVIII...
...department's rationale for the ban is Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which forbids racial or ethnic discrimination by organizations receiving federal funds. "You can't have a whites-only scholarship," says Chester Finn Jr., a Reagan-era education official. "Why should there be scholarships exclusively for minorities...
This year Gladstone's "Queen of all the schools of all the world" is marking a significant anniversary: exactly 550 years have passed since Henry VI dreamed up a school just down the road from Windsor Castle to accommodate "25 poor and indigent scholars." And last week's St. Andrew's Day (Nov. 30), the final great red-letter day of the school's anniversary year, was celebrated in typically Etonian style, with a staging of the annual Wall Game, a notorious blood sport in which 20 savage nobles flail and scramble in the mud in what is fittingly known...
...extent of Jesuit influence exacerbated past papal mistrust, especially during the 1970s, when the order appeared to many to take a pronounced leftward tilt. Tensions broke into the open when Pope Paul VI decided that too many of the members were involved in secular matters, including politics, to the detriment of their priesthood. Whenever a papal teaching was questioned, Jesuits always seemed to be in the thick of things, whether the topic was birth control, homosexuality or female priests. Soon after he became Pope, John Paul picked up Paul's refrain, denouncing the order's "regrettable shortcomings...
...first sought to determine whether Asian American were admitted to Harvard at a significantly lower rate than whites. If true, we would then seek to explain why the disparity existed, and whether any explanations, or the admissions process itself, indicated discrimination against Asian Americans, in violation of Title VI. Included in our review was an examination of the alleged quota issue, and also the general treatment of Asian Americans in the admissions process...