Word: highness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...integrity of pedestrian arteries-now called "sidewalks"-should be protected over substantial lengths as is the integrity of an expressway. If the use of private automobiles is to continue within high-density urban areas, there is at least no reason why those who reject cars under such circumstances should not be granted some measure of isolation from their harmful effects. Devices aimed toward that end might at the same time serve to encourage the automobile's proper function: medium-distance travel, commercial transport, and travel in low-density areas. Incentives and deterrents, wisely employed, may still be capable of effecting...
...night session two weeks ago at Trout Fishing in America a Cambridge organization that operates a free high school among other projects, resulted in a parade Saturday morning from Central Square to the Cambridge Common...
Brewster said the role of the university is one of advocating social change and aiding in the design of institutions "better suited to meet community needs than we ourselves are." He said that it was "high time" for the "public agencies of the society to pull up their socks so that the universities can go back to work and try to break the bottlenecks of medical science, help manpower, and help deliver a basic design...
...failing is absent in the Advancement schools. You are in this environment not to pass or fail but to acquire skills. Individuals proceed at their own pace." Hayes says that this type of school would go a long way toward reducing the dropout rate in Cambridge, which in some high schools is as high as 60 per cent...
...universities must also take more local boys, he says, "When I worked with the Tutoring Plus program (an intensive tutoring course for high school students) I worked with one boy who had 700 college boards. Harvard turned him down because they said 'his environment was not conducive to further academic progress.' That boy is now in prison. The feeling is 'I'm never going to get into Harvard or M. I. T. anyway, so why bother trying...