Word: projects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides many short-term projects, Grant study's doctors have been gathering information on 252 University alumni--chosen from the classes of '40 and '42--since those men entered their sophomore year here. While full reports are made each year, the project will continue indefinitely. "We are trying to discover the factors that make normal people click and become successful," Dr. Clark Heath, Assistant Director of the Study says. "And, man, as opposed to the white rat, develops very slowly...
...kept tabs on Theological students and business executives. Last year, using Hygiene Department records and interviews, Grant began a four-year study of problems presented in the Class of '52. If possible the doctors hope to follow up this group as they are doing with men from their original project. Adding information on special cases, and on men with academic troubles, they will correlate this project's findings with the other data at the end of the period...
Some conclusions from the project are already apparent to the staff. "Our work shows an extra-ordinary variability in human beings," Dr. Heath says. "We early gave up the idea that there is such a thing as a normal person...
...fourth article a half hour before press time. Last week, after rereading the Bill of Rights, Judge Horrigan decided he had gone too far. He rescinded his injunction, but hinted that if the Herald kept printing such stories it might be found in contempt of court. Meanwhile, the project's builders had slapped a $100,000 libel suit against the Herald. Unperturbed, Publisher Lee said: "We'll keep on printing the news when, where and how it occurs...
...which would get as many people as possible into the courts, pools, and fields. This would be best accomplished by a broader scheme of intramural competition, incidentally strengthening the House system, and a more equitable emphasis on the "minor" sports. The inevitable rejoinder to this supposedly visionary project is the point that commercialized football pays for all Harvard athletics. But if the College recognizes that athletics are an inherent part of the educational program, as necessary of professors and laboratories, can it shun its obligation to defray the expenses of a complete enlightened, wholesome sports program? Michael J. Scully...