Word: programming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army at present is re-evaluating its active duty reserve program by which thousands of college students in the last two years have been able to serve only six months active duty instead of the two years required by the draft. Bernard Gwertzman, former Crimson managing editor, offers his own evaluation here. He served his six months after graduation...
Eventually the Program for Harvard College will have raised most of the money it wants, will have invested a good bit of it at a healthy interest rate, and will have spent the rest in improving undergraduate education. In all the discussion about the nature of this improvement, however, little serious thought seems to have been given to a re-evaluation of the objectives of the College...
...this tendency can be seen most forcibly in the crowds in Lamont, struggling to complete reading assignments which demand too much of both a student's time and capacity. The second change is in the new regulations on Honors study which require of every sophomore a much stiffer tutorial program than had previously existed. Coupled with the failure of the Faculty to devise any attractive non-Honors program, the new rules bring added academic pressure on the under-graduate, again to the exclusion of a broader education, within and outside of the curriculum...
Under the present circumstances, however, it is impossible for these students to give much of their time to anything beyond scholarship. Inevitably, and probably unintentionally, Harvard has created a community dominated by the academic ethic. The pressure for admissions, the mandatory Honors program without a respectable alternative in non-Honors, the increased course and departmental requirements, the emphasis which graduate schools place on good undergraduate grades, and the scholarly mystique of the University all add up to a trend towards over-academization and against a truly liberal education...
...position Mason also faces a tough job; he will have to try to push through the President's new housing program over heavy congressional opposition. The President in his budget message this week laid down the broad lines of the program. Chief recommendation: Congress should remove the present ceiling on the amount of private-home mortgages that FHA can insure. Although it shows a handsome profit, FHA last year twice had to jam on the brakes to seek more insurance authorization, now has a request for more money before Congress. In addition, the Administration wants Congress to wind...