Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Community Integration. Currently, N.P.A. reported, Creole is taking an imaginative new step: community integration. Instead of running towns, schools, hospitals and commissaries in the pattern dictated by early-day, oil-camp needs, the company is turning over such services "to new agencies and local businessmen. For example, a company school and hospital have been leased to religious orders, and the company has helped finance two privately owned supermarkets...
...anxiety reigned . . . One hallucination was that of lying flat on a slowly revolving, cloudlike object, and there were other similar objects all around, touching gently and revolving 'in gear.' I just slowly rolled down into the depths of the arrangement. Another was of a flowerbed type of pattern, or perhaps a purposeless pinball machine, with lights arranged in rows and columns. The lights-or flowers-were growing, then bursting in irregular fashion, one at the left, then the center...
...Abandonment of the old Harvard Yard to the freshmen, elimination of that historic bit of ground as a real center of college life, has grieved many good Harvard men. But the fact is that long before the houses came, the pattern of college life about the Yard, which was only Harvard's individual variation of the pattern of life on all the other college campuses, had faded out of existence. There was no pattern of college life...
...freshmen, forced out of their river-front dormitories--incorporated into the Houses--did not immediately fall into a new pattern. The greater part of the incoming classes moved into the Yard halls evacuated by the seniors, but some gained entrance into the Houses. When Dunster and Lowell opened, 155 freshmen flocked into the new Houses...
Industry has learned that there is a law of diminishing returns operating against the expansion of individual units beyond a size where management can function effectively and the worker feels some identification with his job. Decentralization is the current pattern of economic development. I suggest that America and education and the individual student and teacher will be better served if the educational expansion which must take place in the next generation is also decentralized. We will be in a far healthier condition in all kinds of ways if there is a multiplication of community colleges, and a limited expansion...