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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL DEFENSE: A Career for Young Men | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Robert A. Scheuermann, | Title: Holy Cross Seeks to Graduate 'Whole Man' by 4 Years of Rigid Moral, Scholastic Discipline | 11/4/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Robert A. Scheuermann, | Title: Holy Cross Seeks to Graduate 'Whole Man' by 4 Years of Rigid Moral, Scholastic Discipline | 11/4/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Truman Hires Conant | 11/4/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Silent Cash Register | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

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