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...University’s 22nd President, to ask whether his son might be allowed to reside in a previously all-white freshman dorm. Lowell was a self-described "friend of the negro," but this request seemed clearly beyond the pale. "I am sure you will understand," wrote Lowell to the concerned father, "why we have not thought it possible to compel men of different races to live together...
Roscoe Conkling Bruce did not understand, and neither do we. In hindsight, it is clear that what Lowell saw as essential differences between blacks and whites significant enough to preclude important types of social interaction were really nothing more than the collected prejudices of generations...
...School has prepared its students with the tools they need to understand the legal world and to effect “incremental change,” Feldman said...
With the Bok Center course, Pi receives the undergraduate input she says is important for her to understand what College students expect in the classroom...
...order to better understand the sentiments of our peers, all responses from the survey students took on their January experience should be made available. This will not only be informative, but it will also help students leading next year’s programming better understand their constituencies...