Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...raucous 1950's the quiet business-like administration offered by John Volpe was attractive to the Massachusetts electorate, but the voters should be wary of keeping such a man in office for four more years. Massachusetts can no longer neglect her obligations in education, justice, and administrative and constitutional reform. The interference of Peter Volpe, the governor's brother, in the selection of architects at the University of Massachusetts and the re-examination of the Inner Belt indicate perhaps the Commonwealth's government is being conducted on principles actually too close to those of the business world...
Edward J. McCormack, however, can provide Massachusetts with the imagination necessary to find new solutions to the Commonwealth's problems. Demands for the reform of the General Court have grown louder through the last few years; McCormack has wisely suggested that a study be undertaken first to determine just what the Court's problems are and also to learn if a structural change is the best way to solve them...
...unusually well-attended meeting yesterday, the faculty resumed its debate on a report which urges the first major reform of the Med School curriculum in more than half a century. The consensus seemed to favor changes along the lines recommended by the report...
...reform proposal appears to have a great deal of support in the clinical half of the Med School. Of the School's four professors of Medicine (each the head of one of the four teaching hospitals), three have come out strongly for the report, and one is still uncommitted. The position of Surgery remains somewhat unclear, although the head of Surgery at one of the four hospitals opposed the report at yesterday's meeting...
...clinical area opinion seems more divided. The Departments of Physiology and Biochemistry will probably support the subcommittee's report, but spokesmen for Anatomy and Pathology have already indicated that they have serious reservations about the wisdom of reform...