Word: yale
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...reason is largely economic. Parents and students think they will get a higher return on their $16,000-plus annual investment from a brand-name institution such as Yale, Caltech or the University of Chicago than from a lesser-known school. But these same colleges are trying to attract students from diverse ethnic, racial, geographic and economic backgrounds, making the admissions hurdle still higher for the majority of white middle-class applicants. One measure of the competitiveness: last year the University of Pennsylvania rejected 35% of those who scored an extraordinary 1,400 or more on the Scholastic Aptitude Test...
...Restic and Carm Cozza: This year's Harvard-Yale football contest, dubiously referred to as The Game, was highlighted not by stellar play--both teams entered with losing records--but by the humor of the coaches. Restic, Harvard's gray-haired giant, entertained the post-game media throng with jokes about how he and Cozza decide on the winner of The Game before it starts...
When the first Afro-American Studies departments were born out of the turbulent student activism of the 1960s, it was the historians such as John Hope Franklin and John Blassingame--the first head of Yale's Afro-Am Department--who led the march toward developing the new discipline...
...scholars who are now in their 30s--like Gates--provide a kind of bridge," says Baker, who was a young professor at Yale when Gates was an undergraduate there. "They are the second generation, whose graduate education included exposure to the theoretical explosions of deconstructionism and post-structuralism...
Gates, an undergraduate at Yale from 1969 to 1973, says that he and many other scholars in the field were influenced by the historian Arthur Schomburg's reminder that "before we can progress, we have to understand our past." History was therefore the preoccupation of the first phase of Afro-American studies, he argues...