Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consider countermeasures. Shutting canal locks in West Berlin to East German barges, or stopping East German goods at Hamburg, would hurt the Communists, but not enough. A much rougher blow would be halting East Germany's $48 million-a-year trade with West Germany. Communist East Germany in particular needs steel and heavy machinery...
...past, the Law School has been unwilling to prescribe any required courses or even recommend that any particular work be taken in college. "This appears to have been a sound practice," Grisweld said, "for no evidence has ever appeared that one specialty rather than another provides a better training for law study...
There can be only sentimental objections to increasing the size of the College in face of the great national need provided we can come reasonably close to doing Harvard's particular job effectively with increased numbers. The problem really boils down, then, to these questions: what is Harvard's special function in the national educational picture? what specifically would be required in the way of resources and arrangements to perform this function with reasonable adequacy if we have x number of additional students? and can the necessary additional resources be obtained? There is a further general policy question: will...
...predicted, or it may be much less, depending. But even if the common estimates of a doubling of the number of college students nationally by 1970 are accepted, it does not follow that all colleges will be affected equally by the increase in the number of candidates, or in particular that Harvard will...
...other words, 90-95 percent of the "tidal wave" of college candidates is not part of the potential Harvard clientele. What happens to them is important, but they are not our particular problem...