Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Georgia's ex-Governor Herman Talmadge averages four speeches a week to civic and business groups, makes countless public appearances as president of the politically potent University of Georgia alumni association, conducts a weekly TV panel show. Georgia Spotlight, under a local tire company's sponsorship. But for all his activity. Talmadge has been uncommonly coy about making his long-expected announcement of candidacy for the U.S. Senate against Walter F. George. Some Georgians, in fact, have begun to ask if Herman really means...
Throught this struggle, Harvard has had the good sense to speak only when spoken to. Asked for advice, they have given it. Asked to cooperate, they have cooperated, local politicos to the contrary notwithstanding. In any expanded efforts, the University could be even more useful, for its financial and technical resources are tremendous. Whether such help means selling a tenement on Banks Street, or offering expert advice on public health, education, or planning, it could be invaluable...
...attitude has no justification. For years the University has been meeting its problems as they arose, admitting as many freshmen as it could house and teach, building more housing and hiring more faculty when it wanted more freshmen. The resulting hodgepodge has now reached a critical point, with declining local conditions, inadequate housing, inadequate faculty, and inadequate finances making a realistic and comprehensive program necessary...
...admissions, Personnel Director John Teele has been put at the head of an office on Expansion, and a lot of top level discussion and planning has begun. Several outside groups have also entered the picture. The city of Cambridge has instituted a halting program of Urban Renewal to combat local conditions, and the Design School has begun research to assemble information relevant to planning...
...these efforts, however, come under the heading of too little and too late. The University could have anticipated the demand for an eighth house and sought to buy up the land ten years ago. It could have anticipated the decline of local housing facilities and taken steps before the need became critical. But apparently the lack of informed planning made such foresight difficult...