Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...calls the "conventional wisdom." It is not surprising that a third of Harvard's students declare themselves in favor of "reduction of current unemployment by government action, even at the price of aggravating inflation," or that two-thirds support "government wage and price controls to check the inflation"--the second policy presumably helping to balance the first...
...addition to his lectures and assigned realing, a student's newspaper and magazines act as the second major influence on his political beliefs. Seven-tenths read the New York Times--the country's most impartial, unbiased news source...
...second place among the publications, almost three-fifths of the College students read Henry R. Luce's Time, and more than a third also look at his Life. Though some students violently criticize these two magazines the slick, fast-moving style of Time and Life apparently appeals even to Harvard's high intellectual level. Luce's columns are definitely the meat in Harvard's political sandwich...
...student hopes to speak--or even think--about politics intelligently he must face three baffling problems. First, the fact that politics is becoming increasingly complicated, and second, its effects are becoming more and more explosive. As a mode of debate, argument-by-slogan is more dangerous than ever before, and as a mode of operation, policy-by-experimentation is less feasible. Thirdly, as the magnitude of political problems multiplies, the authority responsible for their solution becomes progressively concentrated. Faced with complex, crucial issues, and an imposing, impersonal government, students are at a loss to understand how they...
...Freshmen Union will be kept open two hours later on weekday nights this year, Charles W. Bingham 3L, secretary of the Union, announced last week. A new grill, in a second-floor room adjacent to the Varsity Club, has also been added to the building's facilities...