Two former ivy league presidents weighed in last year with an influential statistical study which attempted to prove that affirmative - action programmes succeeded not only in fostering diversity but also in integrating the highest levels of the professional world 去年两位长春藤大学前任校长有把握地提出一项有影响的统计调查，试图证明不仅对于促使校园中有更多少数民族，而且对消除某些职业最高层次的种族限制，倾斜政策都取得了成功。
In accordance with this rule , it may safely be assumed that the forefathers of boston had built the first prison - house somewhere in the vicinity of cornhill , almost as seasonably as they marked out the first burial - ground , on isaac johnson s lot , and round about his grave , which subsequently became the nucleus of all the congregated sepulchres in the old churchyard of king s chapel 根据这一惯例，我们可以有把握地推断：波士顿的先民们在谷山一带的某处地方修建第一座监狱，同在艾萨克约朝逊地段标出头一块垄地几乎是在同一时期。后来便以他的坟茔为核心，扩展成王家教堂的那一片累累墓群的古老墓地。
