Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most pressing of these issues concerns the relationship of federal highways to mass transportation systems and what should be the federal role in financing the two. Last month Rep. John Bingham (D-N.Y.) introduced in the House a bill to help finance mass transportation with money which now goes to highways. Highway construction money comes out of a special trust fund which was set up only after the most intricate and laborious legislative maneuverings. Bingham's bill proposes to use money from this highway trust fund for mass transportation needs, such as building and improving subway systems. Bingham...
...neutral. In fact, the courses which they approve, from the economics department where Marx is a dirty word, to the humanities where art is separated from reality, to the ROTC program which enlists Harvard in the Vietnam war effort, to the riot control course, are hardly neutral. These courses help maintain the status quo of American capitalism and fight those trying to change it. Must we really accept such courses in the name of "freedom," even of "academic freedom" or of "neutrality...
...meet was not as close as the score indicates because Harvard earned an early lead and, with the help of three sweeps in the middle of the meet, very promptly put the victory out of Penn's reach...
Since your reporter did not attempt to check on the facts with me, I am not surprised that he made many mistakes in so few lines. Please help us to avoid confusions in the operations of the course, Natural Sciences 2, on Tuesday, March 4, by printing the following corrections of the erroneous parts of your story...
...happen to subscribe to most of the points in the statement released by the M.I.T. faculty in explanation of their March 4 activity. But I believe that in my own class the best way to deal with this matter is to help each student, regardless of his won views, to get additional information on this immensely important topic through reading and discussion in the context of the living case study offered by the M.I.T. event. Gerald Holton Professor of Physics