Word: projecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reginald R. Isaacs, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and co-director of the project, said the study is the first such cooperative venture with Yale, but is simply a part of the academic work at the Gradaute School of Design rather than a concentrated study with any state and municipal governments...
There seems to be little or no reason why Harvard could not make a similar gesture to youth groups of--if not the state--the metropolitan area. Our seating capacity is much less than Yale's, of course, but this need only mean that the project be less ambitious in scope than Yale's state-wide invitation. Administrative costs could be absorbed by the slight individual charge...
...tape recorder, an empty store front, and about 20 tough local adolescents form the nucleus of a novel University experiment in human behavior. "Street Corner Research," a project headed by Charles W. Slack, assistant professor of Clinical Psychology, has taken over a closed store at the corner of Bow St. and Massachusetts Ave. to study the problem of juvenile delinquency...
...Although we don't claim to treat them," Dr. Slack stated, "we get better results than we would by using conventional methods." The project is not set up as a social service agency. Rather, it is a scientific endeavor, aimed at discovering reasons for juvenile delinquency. Research and treatment complement each other; Dr. Slack said, "The kids treat themselves by discussion, and reviewing their own material work...
...Something." Still he had to lick the biggest problem: winning approval from G.M.'s top management. In July of 1956, Ed Cole got a much freer rein to press the project: Chevy Boss Tom Keating moved up to head all G.M. passenger-car divisions, and Ed Cole replaced him as the Chevrolet general manager, became a G.M. vice president...