Word: deeper
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...fitting that the committee, chaired by the Rev. Peter J. Gomes and consisting of five Faculty members and three undergraduates, has looked into some of the deeper philosophical issues surrounding the problems faced by minority students at Harvard. But the committee's primary responsibility is to present a concrete proposal to Bok for a Third World center by January 1. We urge the committee to expedite its deliberations and also hope that Bok will not turn his back on a workable suggestion...
What, then, did Whitla and company see as the reason for the absence of minorities on search lists? In a word, demographics--the number of qualified minority candidates is very small because few minorities choose academic careers. In essence, the problem lies much deeper than Harvard's minority Faculty statistics indicate; it is a problem, the report implies, that affects higher education in general...
...That in our deeper reverence for the God who commands us and for the nobility of humankind that impels us, we denounce every form of violence in every neighborhood, we lay aside the weapons and words of political conflict, the taunts and jibes of insidious disrespect...
...which he quotes and paraphrases at great length in the text. In his account of Hawthorne's visit to Niagara Falls in 1832, he mentions, somewhat fastidiously, that the author felt an initial sense of disappointment upon viewing the falls; but he makes no attempt to assess Hawthorne's deeper reaction to Niagara, which represented, for many mid-nineteenth-century Americans, the symbol of the American sublime. Towards the end of the book, Mellow describes Hawthorne's increasingly reclusive nature on the basis of remarks from his letters, but he offers no explanation for the change in Hawthorne's behavior...
Aside from the logistical assistance these facilities afford, many students say the centers help fulfill a deeper need. Princeton senior Rhinold Ponder, former co-chairman of the university's center, points out that Third World students admitted to predominately white institutions face a constant dilemma. "The idea of accepting minority students to a place like Princeton or Harvard is not enough. They just can't be readily integrated into the mainstream--they are culturally different, and in order to share themselves, they have to learn about themselves," Ponder says...