Word: productivity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vandenberg's baroque oratorical style was scarcely equal to his urgent sense of history. But his long and detailed presentation had a ponderous impressiveness. Said he solemnly: "[This plan] is the final product of eight months of more intensive study by more devoted minds than I have ever known to concentrate upon any other one objective in all my 20 years in Congress. ... If it fails, we have done our final best. If it succeeds, our children and our children's children will call us blessed...
...help but chew deeply into the optimism and idealism of those still hopeful for peace on earth and good will towards men. But of the two, the Palestine issue is much the more clearly defined, much the more tragic twist of events. The current Czechoslovakia situation, while unquestionably the product of a Communist putsch of the most brazen sort, is not yet fully enough evolved to warrant throwing one hand up in despair and reaching for a rifle with the other, as many are already doing. It is true that President Benes has capitulated to the extent that...
...introduction of the broad curriculum and the elective system at Harvard, based on the large lecture method of teaching, has had the tendency to result in a student product noted for superficial thinking and scattered knowledge useful primarily for examinations...
...brings us to the "why" of the problem and some very fundamental questions about the College's educational philosophy. In the first two hundred years of Harvard's history, the College was small, well integrated, and externally disciplined. The curriculum was narrow and solid and so was the student product. The reaction against this has reached its height in the last few decades in the wide curriculum and the elective system. It is now turning out a broad but superficial product whose principal skill is that of quick retentive memory and an ability to disgorge and forget a large number...
Last week, pleased by one accomplishment but alarmed by the other, the New Republic was shaken by another surge of frantic economizing. Editor Michael Straight, whose family has footed the New Republic's steady deficit since 1914, had given up the dream of a slick-paper product with lavish displays of half-tones, big names and special art work. Gone, in the undertow of the economy wave, was a flock of staffers. The staff was still bigger than in pre-Wallace days, but the survivors had that worried "who's next" look. The trouble was that the magazine...