Word: segments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Economic slowdowns from one cause or another are inevitable, says Economist Paarlberg. They are the price of economic progress. The economy does not grow in a smooth upward curve, but in a series of jumps. It has become so big and dynamic that when one of its major segments slacks off the pace, another segment begins to pick up speed. For these reasons, many economists believe that any future downturns are bound to be milder and briefer than in the past. Furthermore, the economy's built-in stabilizers are becoming steadily more effective. Unemployment funds and pension plans...
...religious tradition in the families of the students reveals some parallels to present positions. Those students who have become agnostic in opinion characterize the influence of this tradition as "slight" or "moderate"; the fourteen strong Catholics predominantly characterized their background as including a "marked" religious tradition, although a sizable segment of the orthodox evaluated their tradition as only of "slight" or "moderate" influence...
...also lost much of its Protestant heritage through the more enlightened and enlarged admissions policy of recent decades. No longer a training ground for the Congregational ministry, Harvard has discarded its pro-New England bias. One hundred years ago the largest single religious group was Unitarian; today the largest segment is Jewish...
...Harvard-Radcliffe segment of the Summer School showed the larger gain, and there was a big gain in those attending the School of Education...
...Buttrick, Preacher to the University, will be followed by addresses by three students, Richard E. Rubenstein '59, Upton B. Brady '59, and H.O.J. Brown 3D. The awarding of degrees will come next on the program, and the singing of the Commencement Hymn and a benediction will conclude the morning segment...