Word: departmentalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seventeenth century students were not satisfied with setting fires but soon took to fighting them. They organized a volunteer fire department and raced through town on joy rides whether or not there was a fire and whether or not the townsfolk wanted them to extinguish it. The students were justified...
Discovering that all of this was great fun, the College fire department soon acquired its own engine, which was tended regularly by students. Once, to keep it in shape, the students set an old house on fire. Because the apparatus was slightly decrepit the boys nearly reached the scene after...
The rapid development of nuclear power and the growth of radioactive stockpiles must be controlled by fool-proof regulation, two Harvard professors told the state legislative committee on public health yesterday. Harold A. Thomas, Gordon McKay Professor of Civil and Sanitary Engineering declared it the duty of the State Health...
But the difference between official participation and intelligently organized unofficial participation does not seem to have penetrated to the Administration. Contrary to a New York Times story, the State Department is not encouraging students, quietly or otherwise, to have anything to do with the Festival. There does exist a feeling...
The State Department, which recognizes the perils of a non-participation policy more clearly than most branches of the government, is virtually powerless to change the situation even if it wanted to. Its decisions on what is good for the country are already unpopular enough among other Departments to minimize...