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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harris said that this practice of shifting the burden of old age support to the poor and to state and local governments should be discouraged. While the Administration is now planning increases in the payroll tax rate to accumulate a large reserve fund, he stated, there is some question whether the appropriate financing methods should not be to increase the "very low level" of benefits or to postpone rises in rates...
...colleagues who are still spoon-fed by a bevy of counselors, advisors, and deans. At Harvard, freedom is an almost sacred word, with individualism only slightly less exalted. But freedom implies responsibility, which is not so often thought of. During the college years, new freedoms appear at a bewildering rate, and inevitably some cannot be immediately coped with. There is freedom of time and of action in great quantities. The student usually makes his final post-adolescent break with parental authority and many of the values of home and childhood, including often religious beliefs...
...school and to give dictaphones to any professors who will accept them in place of secretaries. "No one seems very eager to take us up on the dictaphones though," Wessel said. "In the long run, I guess we'll just have to hope for an increase in the birth rate...
...press, in a meeting with Dean Bundy today, for some more flexible board system, perhaps a pay-by-the-item meal, an 18-meal or 14-meal per week rate, or some sign-off provisions...
...familiar with the nature of the trance state, they met Shor for the first time. The subjects were then placed on an apparatus called a polygraph, an amazing device built by Bernard Tursky, and developed at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center. The polygraph measures the changes in perspiration, heart rate, respiration, and muscle tension...