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Patrice Bergeron scored his first four goals of the season, Brad Marchand had four assists and the Boston Bruins beat the Detroit Red Wings 5-1 on Thursday night.

A: Thank you for calling attention to this foundational point of the book. The history of higher education contains a steady trajectory of infusing race and supporting racism in and through colleges and universities without necessarily calling attention to the everyday reality of these perspectives and operations. For example, the histories of early college life show that while white men from well-connected families were trained to take over family business, enter medicine or pursue a life as clergymen, higher education was also weaponized to perpetuate the slave economy and promote genocide ...

WhatsApp TODAY THOUSANDS of hopeful students find out whether they have got into America’s prestigious Ivy League universities. The admissions process is fiercely competitive, but some applicants have a helping hand. Roughly three-quarters of the top 100 universities in America give an admissions boost to children of alumni. These privileged progeny are known as “legacies”. The policy, or at least its brazenness, is unique to America (universities in other countries tend to be less open about their nepotism) and much more common among private universities, which include all Ivy League s...