Word: controller
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...like the way New York City is going at rain making," said the weather chief, Reichelderfer singled out for approval the "statistical approach" that Howell is using. The Blue Hills meteorologist, who is receiving $100 a day for his trouble, will set up control regions and compare rainfall in those areas with average precipitation for the past 15 years...
Simply providing direct Federal subsidies to private institutions would be a magic-wand solution, if only certain considerable disadvantages were not attached. Such a program would be expensive, create administrative perplexities in distributing the funds, and would almost certainly result in some degree of government control. "He who pays the piper calls the tune." Educators fear that the government could easily impose specifications on what is done with the money it donates, and also that money-doling legislatures might frown on universities whose professors speak out of turn. Diversity is one of the great features of our educational system...
...better solution than Federal aid expressed in subsidies would be the recently proposed $300,000,000 program for Federal scholarships. Such a scheme, if administered correctly, might be immune to Federal control, and would hit directly at the problem of helping qualified men of low income families reach college. As proposed to Congress by the President, this plan would "assist capable youths who could not otherwise do so" to attend any institution of their choice that would admit them. Such a program, however, would only be as effective as the machinery set up for determining the intellectual qualifications and real...
...school systems is currently being treated make it pain that such a program for higher education is a long way off. But something of this order will eventually be needed to solve the problems that private wealth fails to solve. Through Federal national scholarships, which need not mean Federal control, more qualified men can receive a college education, while simultaneously a part of the financial burden is lifted from the private institutions...
Dean Rogers said that a self-government system would be inaugurated wherever the new rules are adopted. He asserted that the University would drop proctors from the halls under his control next year in an attempt to decrease costs...