Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conant also examines some of the financial problems which at present beset our educational system. Although "public education is a local responsibility and therefore must be financed at least in part by taxes raised in each community," Conant feels that Federal aid to public education may be required in states which cannot raise the necessary taxes...
...Local Origins...
...born in Cambridge, I've lived all my life in Cambridge, and I'll probably die in Cambridge. Period." That, he will tell you, is his life history. He went to Harvard after graduating from local public schools. His education was interrupted during the First World War. He enlisted in the army as a private, leaving as a buck sergent, but he never heard the noise of battle; instead he hastily taught soldiers the fine points of the supply corps...
...Romance Languages. Even though he never planned to be a municipal administrator, he devoted much of his curriculum to courses in government and economics; he had enough courses in economics to get a degree in this department. In his second year, he competed for the Baldwin Prize in local government and submitted a paper entitled "Country Government in Massachusetts" in which he concluded that "it simply should be abolished...
...final day of the meet brought smoother winds, and at last, in the twenty-ninth race (there are 32 in all, remember) the local sailors finally reached first place...