Word: projected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deferments for students or employees, a conscientious objector doing research at the School of Public Health was denied permission to count his work here as alternate service. The CO's draft board said the research would be acceptable, but it asked for a letter from Harvard confirming the research project. The Harvard Personnel Office refused, saying that the University could not "ask for deferments...
Political considerations must also be kept in mind when considering sites and designs for housing projects. A general enthusiasm for low-income housing in Cambridge does not necessarily mean that the neighbors of any one proposed housing project will welcome it. And Cambridge's decentralized political system makes the City Councillors--who must approve any of the zoning changes usually needed for a housing development--acutely sensitive to pressures from small groups of their neighborhood constituents...
...community to be represented. Cambridge is not one community, but rather a series of communities, divided economically ethnically, and even regionally. It will be necessary to strike a balance of representation between the various communities concerned with housing, between, for example, those who are likely to live in a project and those who will live around it. The task may not be accomplished quickly, not without the public squabbling characteristic of Cambridge political life...
...Projects there are selected by review boards composed of the applicant's scientific peers, and the entire process is largely designed and run by the academic community. This is not to say that criteria for project selection are impeccable. There certainly are cases in which bad choices have been made. But to the best of my knowledge research funds have not been terminated or refused by the government on the grounds of the researcher's political views. If I am ignorant of counterexamples I wish to be disabused...
...some particular research project is inappropriate for a university it should be terminated selectively, leaving the majority of research, which contributes to the university's objectives...