Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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The Harvard plan, as it has now evolved, is probably the best of all possible "peace corps." It will give the beneficiaries the teachers they need, not the manual labor they don't know what to do with. Africa has no use for a massive American work camp, no matter...
The new nations, as Elliot Berg (another local peace corps sponsor) has said, need "teachers, not doers," and this is precisely what the University's program would provide--as the individual nation wants them and is willing to pay their salaries. The University's financial participation would probably be limited...
But, while thus far the Harvard proposal has avoided the most obvious pitfall--that of uselessness--there remains the danger of losing sight of the program's purpose. Any "peace corps" proposal must be directed to the real needs of the underdeveloped nations, not toward providing American students with an...
Some people connected with the local proposal have seemed to view the peace corps as a kind of Soc Rel experiment for the American participants. To keep this kind of thinking from taking precedence over the requirements of the emerging nations, the University might invite the Nigerian or Kenyan government...
Much of the current interest in peace corps was stimulated by Senator Kennedy's campaign proposal late in October. Presumably some sort of legislation in the field will come before Congress next year, but passage may well take more than one session. In this case, the efforts and experience of...