Word: developed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lecture system at Harvard gives Professors a chance to develop their ideas on some chosen topic at length and regularly over a period of time. It is far superior to the British, system, say, in which lectures are sporadic events to be made use of or not as the mood strikes one. Nevertheless, the course system at Harvard does not work very well largely because all the reading is assigned--as if it will be done simultaneously with the lectures. Another drawback is that the educational process is rounded off, in good European fashion, by a massive examination...
Such an approach, of course, would also shrewdly pull the Mayor's own head out of the line of political fire which will develop from one direction or the other--no matter which way he turns in coming encounters...
...finally, it will mean the loss of an opportunity to develop real resources for the community's own self-help effort...
Examples of experiments which move in this direction also exist in New York, in Georgia, in California, and elsewhere. None is fully developed as yet; but all move towards using business self-help skills to provide an expanding source of funds--from profits--to develop the other aspects of the community's social service program...
...Mayor were really prepared to innovate and invent, he would at once see that the poor white communities of Boston have many of the same difficulties as the black communities. There is no reason he could not help a solid but poor Irish neighborhood develop its own community controlled services and enterprises at the same time a black neighborhood is doing...