From as early as 1802 Captain William Layman had suggested that the colony of Trinidad would benefit greatly from free Chinese labour. It was felt that free Chinese labour would be a suitable substitute for African slave labour and that these “free civilized men” would set the African slave ...
https://www.sfexaminer.com/forum/rethinking-admissions-now-that-affirmative-action-is-banned/article_10e7f468-175d-11ee-bf09-97e36aa8a292.html?utm_medium=socialutm_source=twitter_sfexaminerfbclid=IwAR3lm_brf-gnr7DwDs1U5EXxGkWdPK286iTyiky1JgfIhzcMCR4el0LsTGw Roberts criticized the Harvard pla ...
https://dailytrojan.com/opinion/2022/03/22/the-unjust-legacy-of-legacy-admissions/ About one hundred years ago, three elite universities — Harvard, Yale and Princeton — first put into place the practice of legacy admissions. Their actions were followed closely by several other pr ...
MERKLEY, BOWMAN INTRODUCE BILL TO END LEGACY ADMISSION PREFERENCES AT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES Wednesday, February 2, 2022 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and U.S. Representative Jamaal Bowman (D-NY-16) today introduced the Fair College Admission ...
George Washington's first recorded order for tea dates to December of 1757, when he wrote to England seeking "6 lb. best Hyson Tea" and "6 lb. best Green Ditto." Sick and having arrived back at Mount Vernon from the frontier, Washington sent a note to his neighbor Sally requesting some f ...