Word: basics
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Instead of U.M.T.-U.M.S. Presumably he would ask again for such a program. But U.M.T. at best was a questionable solution to the problem. The softhearted U.M.T. bill now in Congress requires six months of basic training in a so-called National Security Training Corps. The trainee, scrupulously protected during his powder-puff training from the dread (to politicians) prospect that he might take on the rough cast of the regular soldier, would have several choices on graduation: 1) six more months of N.S.T.C. training (during which he would not be used in combat), 2) enlistment in the regular armed...
...problem of whether or not a college can develop a whole man is so essential to the basic philosophy of an education that Harvard's Student Council is currently carrying out research designed to learn--as well as can be learned--the necessities for the development of this "whole man" graduate. A pamphlet attempting to explain the religious emphasis in Holy Cross education states that "the supervision over a student's moral life should be as systematic as the direction of his mental life. Education, as understood in this system, is the training of the whole man in which training...
...Basic dormitory regulations--as set down in a little purple manual referred to as the "joke book"--state that the Holy Cross upperclassman must be in for the night by 7:30 p.m. on weekdays, 11:45 p.m. on Saturdays, and 11 p.m. on Sundays. For freshmen these times are moved up approximately an hour. A monitoring system of corridor prefects checks up on obedience to these rules with more or less conscientiousness...
...foundation was set up by a 1950 law charged with developing and encouraging "the formation of a national policy for the promotion of basic research and education in the sciences...
...create "mass unemployment before there is enough defense work and take materials out of civilian production before they are needed in defense production. They are discriminatory, ill-considered and dangerous. They are a grievous blunder . . . The Federal Reserve Board, living in a world of banker mentality and unaware of basic production problems, has . . . made a stab in the dark and the knife is in the backs of America's low-income families...