Word: promptness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Pusey and President James Killian of M.I.T. have been invited to a dinner meeting with the municipal planning board and local business leaders to discuss the best way to get prompt action on urban renewal. Many citizens of Cambridge feel that the University and M.I.T. should join the city in setting up a permanent committee to deal with other major problems--traffic, housing, schools, etc.--and to coordinate action now and in the future. "If Harvard, M.I.T. and the city don't work together, we might as well give the whole works back to the Indians," one local businessman...
...Prompt Action Sought...
...jury, was considered so important that it was required both by the U.S. Constitution, as originally adopted, and repeated in the Bill of Rights. On the other hand, said the Supreme Court, military jurisdiction grew out of the belief that "within the military ranks there is need for a prompt, ready-at-hand means of compelling obedience and order." Conceding to "military personnel that high degree of honesty and sense of justice which nearly all of them undoubtedly have, it still remains true that military tribunals have not been and probably never can be constituted in such a way that...
...school system demands some prompt, effective help," President Eisenhower announced in February, 1953, and the nation's educators promptly chalked up an "A" for homework well-done. But the new administration evidently forgot its important assignment, for now, nearly three years later, the critical need for elementary and secondary school buildings and teachers remains almost totally ignored. Classroom and teacher shortages still force over 700,000 students to attend school only half-day, and 6 million children study, in fire-traps. The picture is not pleasant. The need for more schools and teachers has brought from the White House...
...domination of the university by the state. The file begins with a Police Report: "two students arrested last night for being drunk and shouting liberty." The next entry is an Executive Order from the Ministry of Education to the Dean of the university: "Expel the students." And the final prompt response from the Dean: "Orders complied with." The government, in short, was changing universities into mere departments, and teaching chairs were awarded as prizes for political submission...