Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agree, also, that we must not approach the difficult national problem of greatly increased numbers wanting higher education in the next generation in any narrow, provincial or selfish spirit. We have a profound concern as citizens and as members of a university community with the kind of education the coming generation will have, and we have an obligation to the nation and to Harvard to do our full duty. But what is our duty? Here Harvard men will disagree, as usual...
...expand, which ones should grow at the expense of which others? Can we think of the College problem without considering the competing needs of the other groups? In view of the shortage of college teachers, which will be the critical bottleneck in the national expansion of higher education, and in view of the importance of the Harvard Graduate School in training college teachers, a stronge case can be made for expanding the Graduate School instead of the College. [Ed.--See Professor Harris' Friday statement]. Yet it has been said that it requires about three times as much in university facilities...
...will be a large increase in the number of college students. Just how big the increase will be is, however, uncertain. College enrollments will be effected by a number of more or less unpredictable factors: business conditions, draft and man power policies, social and economic pressures, the cost of higher education, scholarship opportunities, the difficulty of securing admission to college, etc. . . The increase may be much more than is generally predicted, or it may be much less, depending. But even if the common estimates of a doubling of the number of college students nationally by 1970 are accepted, it does...
...whites in similar economic circumstances to get on the relief rolls, and relief grants are often lower for Negroes than for whites... Hospitals, libraries, parks, and similar recreational facilities are much poorer for Negroes than they are for whites. This is true in spite of the fact that the higher sickness rates and the inferior housing conditions in Negro sections make the need for all sorts of health and recreational facilities so much greater in Negro neighborhoods....Streets are not keep up in Negro section of Southern cities the way they are in white sections. Public utility equipment is often...
Although Mr. Halberstam may be correct about white Southern parents being apprehensive about opening the schools to Negroes who have a higher disease rate than whites, he fails to emphasize the fact that many of these white parents are themselves responsible for this situation. Having been relegated for centuries to the lowest economic position in the United States generally and in the South particularly, it is not surprising that Negroes have the highest disease rate of any other group in this country...