Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reader Jim DiMiceli (who bought a finned Plymouth after becoming disenchanted with a French-built puddle jumper) erred in expecting good workmanship from a nation unable to even govern itself. Too bad he didn't try a Volkswagen. People who can lift themselves from the 1945 flat-off-their-backs to dominate Europe economically can, among other things, build good cars...
...question of the isolation of science is too much for secondary education, and that only the college can handle it. Not many colleges are interested or capable, of course, but even those that try do not succeed very well. They have to contend with two sorts of prejudices built up in high schools--the idea that math and science are either much too difficult or much too boring for the ordinary, healthy student, or the other snobbery that regards any history course at all as an imposition on the time of the budding engineer. The best General Education program imaginable...
There can be no question, I think, that in these eighty-five years successive editors have built for the HARVARD CRIMSON a strong place in Harvard College. Although I can't vouch that a canvass of the Faculty would bring an overwhelming paean of praise for the CRIMSON, I believe that the Faculty owes a large debt of gratitude to the CRIMSON, probably greater than it realizes. Faculty members would, I think, almost universally commend the paper for its occasional "feature articles." They would, I suspect, be less complimentary about the editorials on subjects of which they have special knowledge...
...community from looking upon the school committee as a power structure that must be beaten down in order to have one's say. In Cambridge, where so much of the recent appointments scandal was carried on in "executive session," from which visitors were barred, such a structure has been built up, at least in the minds of the citizenry. To succeed in running an effective school system, then, the school board must unite the community behind it, and in so doing it will absorb and affect the ideas of the citizens who feel that they have a significant role...
...townspeople what they were doing probably held more than a grain of truth. Until the Board tries to gain general consent from the community before it proposes a plan--and incorporates in it the intelligent suggestions of the non-Board members--there will never be a new high school built in Mount Vernon...