Word: question
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where it counts. Right?" But as Steiner points out, "The trouble is, where does it count?" This, alas, is a problem both for Steiner and Zane. Where does one draw a distinction between the moral and immoral? Neither Wyeth, Steiner, nor Zane seems to be particularly concerned with this question except to the extent that they raise it, then let it drop...
...Spear looks questioningly at the trade union workers. That question, evidently, is outside of his jurisdiction; he only represents management...
...fellow lights up another cigarette and takes a deep puff, as if giving to understand that the question has been settled...
...there can be no question of the importance of the expansion issue. Its economic implications are conspicious: that Harvard may have to pay as much as $10 million just for the land to expand; that it may be forced to underpay its professors (even if they do remain among the nation's highest paid.) The educational implications, as they would influence the substitution of lectures for sections and would perhaps reduce student-Faculty relations, are even more significant. It is impossible to pass on the probability or desirability of the various possibilities, but their existence is clear and important...
...University or the College if every administrative decision were referred to the Faculty. Yet there comes, every few years, a critical problem which needs such discussion, and which would benefit substantially from thorough consideration by non-Administrators. Perhaps the revision of the Freshman year is such a question; certainly expansion is sufficiently immediate and pressing so that the Administration should stop playing its cards close to its chest, throwing the matter open to and actively encouraging general faculty discussion...