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...seminars were started in the fall to strengthen the educational function of the Houses and to offer non-Honors and science majors small-group instruction similar to tutorials...
...Kennedy Administration, then, either through the present Housing Administration or through a Department of Urban Affairs (the latter might ultimately be more desirable), should actively encourage municipal governments to take the following steps: strengthen and enforce building codes, to make slum-owning a less lucrative proposition; pass and enforce legislation similar to the New York City ordinance prohibiting discrimination in private housing; explore the possibility of metropolitan area government to handle slums outside the city limits...
American universities should create a private organization to strengthen their educational leadership in world affairs, according to a Ford Foundation report released today. The study was prepared at the request of the State Department...
...wardens' tenure and the like, and clogging up its own operations in the process. It would also face the task of providing a new concept for limiting and organizing the proliferous state agencies (221 at present). Any such reform would be impossible within the Legislature, for it would strengthen the control that the Commission on Administration and Finance wields as the central housekeeping department...
...also says that "many professors are worth more to the university by spending time away." McGeorge Bundy, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, adds that not more than 10% of the faculty are ever absent for long. Bundy asks: "How are we going to strengthen our knowledge of far-off areas unless we have men wandering through darkest Africa? This outside activity enriches and invigorates the place. Without it Harvard would be a much duller place." At week's end Boston papers reported that Bundy himself, a Republican-for-Kennedy, was in line for a Washington...