Word: public
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...town-gown relations, McNamara said, "If Harvard, M. I. T., and Radcliffe officials sat down with public officials, they might thrash things out; sometimes, though, Harvard seems a little arrogant...
Beneath the placid security of America's little-red-school-houses, a disease is festering which threatens to undermine public education. Americans boast of their youth, their open minds, their opportunities to learn and think for themselves. But the facts behind these boasts ring false. The sickness has spread until there is a shortage of schools, a lack of funds to maintain them, until their teachers are underpaid and often have never gone beyond high school themselves. The highest standards of a few rich cities and states cannot compensate for the slough of rural America...
...whole conference reconvened in the new debutanted Littauer auditorium where there followed a tidal wave of voluble riot and disorganized debate. In vain did the group mentality strive to find the fruits of its previous well-ordered labor mirrored in the stormy session that questioned deficit finance, public spending, and even the protagonists' intentions. Roberts' rules were not enough to resist the tide of debate. Two chairmen substituted for each other as arbitrary Noah's Arks, and yet the debate reached a point where at one moment a resolution was voted out, in and out and in again, and then...
Professor Albig summarizes many experiments in the measurement and control of public opinion. And there have been some darbs. In nine colleges from Stanford to Columbia, students' attitudes toward Japan and China were tested, after which some were given a bombardment of Japanese and some of Chinese propaganda. Each group changed its collective mind. At the University of Iowa, opinion-testers pretended that an Australian ex-Prime Minister Hughes was in Iowa on a lecture tour, planted 15 editorials approving him, 15 opposed, let the favorable editorials be read by one group, the unfavorable by another. Of the group...
Birmingham. Author Leighton likes Birmingham, Ala. least of his five cities. City of unkept promise, he calls it, with vast natural resources and the lowest per capita public expenditure of any big U. S. city-near the bottom in appropriations for education and public health, near the top in its murder rate. Author Leighton's explanation of its unkept promise: racial conflict, absentee ownership...