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School Superintendent Mary Lou McGrath defended the district's efforts, saying that school officials must balance between hiring minority faculty and providing an excellent education for students...
Because of Harvard's financial aid procedures,women are not punished for their poorerperformance in the National Merit Scholarshipcompetition, McGrath said...
...time high of 217 in the Class of '97. The record-breaking diversity is not an inexplicable fluke of admissions. It is the result of the school's active effort to target promising minority students in order to increase their representation at Harvard. Marlyn McGrath Lewis, Director of Admissions for Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, explained that the "aggressive recruitment of strong minority candidates has been a goal of the Admissions Office for the past three decades, ever since the change in national consciousness focused our attention on the under-representation of students from minority backgrounds...
Underlying the Admission Office's policy is the belief that diversity is inherently good--that the more minorities represented in the student body and faculty, the greater variety of backgrounds and experiences, the more interesting and educationally exciting Harvard will be. As McGrath Lewis said, "The mix of talents, backgrounds, and aspirations is a fundamental part of the undergraduate experience and the key to our success." She continued: "The mission [of Harvard] is to produce leaders of society from all segments of society. Unless we have classes that represent the pluralism of the United States, and, increasingly, of the world...
Quotes attributed to Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis '70-'73 in Tuesday's article on admissions were incorrectly attributed. An admissions office aide made the remarks. The Crimson regrets the error...