Word: aid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Combined Charities Drive has dropped the World University Service from its list of recommended charities, the HCC Committee announced recently. The Service is an international student relief agency that emphasizes aid to refugee students...
...selected a week ago after a stormy meeting at which the Council severely criticized and finally rejected a first report on the NDEA submitted by another committee. Attacks on the original report centered on the "immature" writing and on certain passages construed as hostile to the principle of Federal aid to education...
...Federal Aid Approved...
Envisioning this type of city, Barnes feels the new Cambridge deserves an outstanding public school system. The CCA supports such programs as Harvard assistance in teaching foreign languages in the grammar schools, M.I.T. aid with physics, or Harvard instructors in voluntary high school Russian courses. Should an anti-CCA Mayor win the chair and put independent forces in charge of the School Committee, Barnes thinks their probably consequent actions would be detrimental to an outstanding school system...
...principal fault of the report, though, lay in its excessive stress on the danger of federal aid to education. In emphasizing that attaching "ideological strings" was a tendency of governmental aid, and recommending that that all federal aid should be held suspect, the report exceeded its mandate to report on the NDEA an delivered a thinly veiled attack on the concept of federal aid to education. The Council was right to order the new committee to "tone it down...