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...grant money. Many professors find these requirements irrational, particulary "effort reporting," where a professor must determine what percentage of his time he spends on certain tasks. In some fields where teaching, research and writing mesh inseparably, answering an effort report becomes a ludicrous job, says Math Department Chairman David Mumford...
...These idiots attempt to make us break down out time," Mumford explains. "In mathematics where everything is in your head when you start thinking about such a problem and stop thinking about it is very unclear...
...Walter Lippman wrote. "The true view of cities is to regard them as places where the activities of the whole nation come to a head...There is no way to separate the cities from the nation." Seven years later Lewis Mumford observed that "today we begin to see that the improvement of cities is not matter for small one sided reforms; the task of city design involves the vaster task of rebuilding our civilization." Both statements have at least equal, if not greater, meaning today...
...reality is cities will remain. They can get worse, and hopefully they can get better. Anyway, for whatever it's worth, I am with Lippman and Mumford in believing that what happens to them will both reflect and determine what happens to America. And perhaps someday soon Harvard and the country will be with them...
...emphasis on technocratic grandiosity to humanistic sensitivity, an approach that other cities might heed, is largely due to the work of the Jerusalem Committee, initiated in 1968 by Mayor Kollek. The group is made up of some 100 architects, urbanists, historians and theologians from 25 countries; its members include Mumford, Architect Philip Johnson, the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh of the University of Notre Dame, former CBS Chairman William S. Paley and German Educator Hellmut Becker. Asking the committee's advice is Kollek's way of saying that Jerusalem belongs not only to Jews but to world civilization. Said...