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...Desegregation generally proves easiest where the Negro population is smallest, but there are such exceptions as the integrated schools of St. Louis, where Negroes are 35% of the students-a larger percentage than that of segregated Nashville. Richmond and Dallas...
...things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them, and they try to put him out of their minds. The easiest way to do so is to insist that he keep his place. The Jew suffers from the same cause, but to a much less extent...
This position was vigorously attacked by John U. Monro '34, Director of the Financial Aid Office, as representing a "dead on the feet" attitude in the Harvard community. He claimed that such an attitude merely seeks the easiest way out, and that the University's prestige made it "incredible to let someone else look after the undergraduate problem." He also pointed out that Harvard has expanded in the past without noticeably diminishing the quality of its education...
...also in these big cities where it is easiest to buy consumer goods. Malia, for instance, lost his pair of nail clippers in Kiev, and there was not even a pair of scissors in the biggest department store in town. And in Leningrad, he bought the last pair of gloves in the biggest department store there. Both these items were available in abundance in Moscow. Similarly, it is only the five or six largest cities in Russia which have television...
Faced with the ambiguous yet strenuous demands of medical schools, harried premeds are often uncertain about the most propitious undergraduate preparation. Since medical schools urge a broad liberal arts background, and at the same time narrowly inspect grades in science, hopefuls cast about for the easiest way of satisfying these two divergent demands. Some of the more daring concentrate in non-honors in English, but most drift quietly into either Biology or Biochemistry. Both of these allow considerable freedom to take courses in outside fields, yet give the premed the comforting feeling that he can throw most of his energies...