Word: processing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wayne Morse had long since decided, is that U.S. citizens are sometimes a little lazy when it comes to working at it-especially if the work involves going to a political meeting and asking a challenging candidate a few sharp questions. Last week Morse set out to make the process really easy. Seated in a little studio in station KERG in Eugene, he invited listening farmers and townspeople to pick up the phone and ask him a question. The questions came with a rush; it kept three people busy just taking the calls...
There are 127 men in the College working both ends of the teaching game. Every morning they take down notes as students. Then about two nights a week they reverse the process-tutoring settlement house youngsters as members of the Phillips Brooks House Undergraduate Faculty Committee...
...odds are very good that this weeding out of fraternity bias will be a long and slow process. There are three big obstacles...
Conservatism has a real solid, negative value. It can offer reasoned objections to foolish proposals. Every proposal for improving society should pass through the fire of conservative criticism. Were there no conservatives available for this process, we would have to invent them somehow or other...
Start about the same process today, and, if you're the least bit more controversial than the chess club, you've probably bought yourself an ulcer. You've got to get approved by the Student Council and by the Dean's Office. You've got to keep on file at the Dean's Office a complete list of members and an up-to-date version of your constitution. Every one of your members must be a member of Harvard University, and half of them must be students at Harvard College. You can't undertake any activity outside the limits...