Word: interested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alleged domination of the government by monopolists. It may be that monopolists don't give a damn for civil liberties, but Rogge dwells too much on the economic motivations for persecution. Even among the poorer citizens who do not hold "conglomerate acquisitions," there has been a decline in interest in civil rights. It is as much a question of political unsophistication and international queasiness as it is of mergers and monopolies...
...plans for enlarging Harvard's student loan facilities were proposed by Monro. The first, which has been employed at Yale for ten years, would provide for a maximum loan of $600 per year interest free until five years after graduation from college. Then there would be a 4 to 41/2 percent interest rate on the loan until it was completely repaid...
...second plan which MIT has used since 1929 involves similar loans which are paid back at a rate of $50 per half year after graduation and pays a continuous 1 percent interest rate on the loan. Which plan Harvard may adopt is still completely undecided and the question brought considerable debate at the Council meeting...
...Crimson of April 27, discussing the Social Relations Department, contains an implication that needs correction. It is quite correct to state that our disciplines contain more theory than fact. It is incorrect to imply that prospective concentrators can look to an early ending of this condition. Our primary interest is in the development of a systematic and rigorous body of social theory capable of predicting behavior. To state that we are getting more empirical is only to state that we are interested in the operation and materials by which we can test our theories...
Loans: The Committee has recommended that there be a reduction in interest rates on long-term loans granted by the College, and that money be made available for large amounts of such loans to undergraduates. At present grants from the College loan funds carry an interest rate of 41/2 per cent. We are presently studying loan fund systems of other colleges which charge no interest at all until after graduation, or very low rates of interest of 1 or 2 per cent...