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...time the department's physical set-up was more than adequate. Now, according to Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, the only feasible solution would be to rip down Stillman and construct a combination infirmary and health center. His proposed site is between Dunster and Holyoke on the ground now taken up by Cronin's, Arthur Parker's, Cahaly's, and a parking...
...urged the Atomic Energy Commission to let U.S. industry apply its own huge resources to speeding up the peacetime uses'of atomic power. At year's end, AEChairman Gordon Dean promised quick action on changes in the law "necessary if private industry is to be permitted to construct and operate reactors." Moreover, Dean predicted that 1953 would see AEC itself design small, relatively cheap (perhaps $5,000,000) atomic "package" plants to generate power in remote areas where normal power sources are costly...
...interpretation. To the uninitiated in this long-standing controversy, both appear interchangeable. They are not. Where slanting means conscious distortion in the interests of whatever axe one wants to grind, interpretation implies as pure an intent as straight recitation. Its purpose is not to-exclude relevant facts, but to construct as complete a picture of events as possible...
During the war, former professor of Government E. Pendleton Herring began to gather studies of actual administrational problems in order to construct a new Littauer course. Whipped into shape by 1946, the course, Public Administration and Public Policy, became the model for public service schools throughout the country. Its case methods dropped students into an actual agency, where, through reading, they fought dogfights with pressure groups and prayed for nickels from Congress, much like real administrators. Many government agencies winced when they saw their most bitter struggles and biggest botches printed up as case studies, but they soon realized that...
...other more specific ways, says Lilje, the reformers helped construct a new world order. From Luther on, they sponsored popular education and the use of vernacular languages. Luther himself evolved a new theory of charity that prevented "a breakdown of the social order in the 16th century," when the medieval pattern of almsgiving for the good of the donor's soul fell into neglect. Luther told his followers that "the aim of charity is the independence of the individual; the helpless must be trained to help themselves...