Word: growth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other factor contributes to the growth of pressure toward academic pre-professionalism. As the number of applicants for admission rises, the level of proficiency and of entrance standards also increases. The Class of 1958, which indicated such an unusual proclivity for doctoral training, was the "brightest," i.e. the most academically promising, class ever to be admitted. Each subsequent class has broken the 1958 record, and there is every reason to believe that the trend will continue for at least ten years...
Harvard can, of course, work to reverse some of this pressure. It could attempt to make greater use of Dean Bender's policy of basing admissions on a broader range of talent than mere academic proficiency. It could try to check the growth in quantity of course work. It could cultivate in its undergraduates the realization that their value to society has little to do with their Group standing. It could affirm the value of organized non-academic activity and encourage participation in extra-curricular work beyond the level of encouragement it has so far maintained...
...billion budget. In his Economic Report, he asked Congress to amend the Employment Act of 1946 by adding "reasonable price stability" to the other economic goals-"maximum production, employment and purchasing power"-that the Federal Government is pledged to foster. "An indispensable condition for achieving vigorous and continuing economic growth," said the President, "is firm confidence that the value of the dollar will be reasonably stable in the years ahead." What that really meant was that the U.S., in the absence of any reasonable hope for a relaxation of cold-war tensions, must go on trimming its fiscal sheets...
...President's Council of Economic Advisers, gave persuasive support to Eisenhower's conviction that the U.S. will be prosperous enough next fiscal year to produce budget-balancing revenues. Said the President: "If Government spending is held within the limits set in the proposed budget, the growth of our economy will make it possible in the reasonably foreseeable future to provide a significant further step in tax reform and reduction...
...offered the President a chance to carry the crucial battle into enemy territory. Rather than merely defend against a spate of pump-priming schemes, he could attack the policies that pump inflation into the economy: "The chief way for Government to discharge its responsibility in helping to achieve economic growth with price stability is through the prudent conduct of its own financial affairs...