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...special admissions committee directed its attention to the College, but it continued to follow a fairly moderate road. An angry four-page letter was sent to both President Nathan Pusey and President-elect Derek Bok, and released to the two college newspapers. The pressure of the news stories and the friendly urgings of President-elect Bok made the meeting with members of the Admissions Committee somewhat productive. Although no new Chicanos were admitted to the Class of 1975, the Admissions Committee agreed to remodel some of its admissions procedures: it would help train Chicano student recruiters; it would listen...
WALTER HELLER, University of Minnesota professor and former chairman of the CEA. ROBERT NATHAN, head of Robert R.Nathan Associates, a Washington-based economic consulting firm. ARTHUR OKUN, senior fellow of the Brookings Institution, former chairman...
There is the obligatory Love Story put-down, complete with stale jokes, and the author's defensive bid for us to accept him as a hip sophisticate. ( His stories, he quickly points out, are Humphrey Bogart and Dennis Hopper... whoopee-do!). There's a biography of Nathan Pusey, which explains the "bitter man" as an evangelical rationalist; it is followed by a rogue's gallery of Pusey's administrators that includes some very outdated photographs and uncritical thumbnail biographies (MacGeorge Bundy's "academic speciality was American foreign policy," we are told...
...join the Nixon administration in 1969, Moynihan was director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies. He did not resume that position when he returned to Cambridge three months ago. He has published widely in the field of urban affairs, and was co-author with Nathan Glazer. professor of Education and Social Structure. of Boyond the Mclting Pot, a highly publicized work on the assimilation of ethnic minorities...
...Sephardim's arrival in the New World. Despite Peter Stuyvesant, who considered them "godless rascals," they were soon slave-trading with the best people and prospering. In a familiar pattern, the book alternates scandals with successes. Benjamin Cardozo replaced Oliver Wendell Holmes on the Supreme Court. Annie Nathan Meyer founded Barnard College at age 22. The Revolution would have been fought, but almost certainly not won, without Sephardic money. Then there was Uriah Levy. He fought anti-Semitism in the U.S. Navy, kept a mezuzah outside his cabin door, and finally, when he was advanced to the rank...