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...even more harmful effect would be the changed intellectual character of the College. The academic intensity produced by limiting admission to the most scholastically proficient would not be the most favorable atmosphere for development of student abilities. While Harvard College would certainly produce more academicians by drawing from only the top students, it would not provide us many leaders in other fields of endeavor. It would be a perversion of the function of the American college to force undergraduates into a graduate school environment...
...shootings in Dorchester and Roxbury. First via letter—and then by meeting with Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 himself—student leaders from the BSA facilitated the development of a comprehensive plan to curb youth violence in the state. Besides the potential tangible effect of lowering rates of youth violence, the most encouraging aspect of this dialogue was the students’ embracing a cause that does not directly affect them. By thus engaging with the larger community outside of Harvard , the BSA served as a model student-interest organization with a political...
Lapidus, then Gail S. Warshofsky, also said that she thought it had a similar effect on those who traveled in the opposite direction and “destroyed a lot of stereotypes about the U.S.A...
...Journal of Studies on Alcohol paper, Fillmore and his colleagues demonstrated this point: people who expected caffeine in their drinks to do the compensating work for them performed significantly worse on the same kinds of psychomotor tests than a group told that the caffeine would have no effect. The latter group, it seemed, had enlisted their own compensating mechanisms...
...prompted a weeklong purge inside the campaign. A number of lobbyists were tossed over the side overnight, generating resentment. Most won't be missed much, but some will: gone is Loeffler, a lobbyist for Saudi Arabia, who played a central role in campaign fund raising and who functioned in effect as chief financial officer. As with others who departed, Loeffler's outside work was no secret inside the campaign. "The story was dead, and they resurrected it themselves," observes a Republican campaign strategist who, like others who spoke with TIME, declined to be interviewed on the record...