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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week by Chairman Bob Doughton's House Ways & Means Committee were Administration amendments to the Social Security Act. Their prime object was to scuttle the illusory "full reserve" ($47,000.000,000 by 1980) planned for Social Security insurance for the aged, try for a collect-as-you-pay system by upping immediate Federal contributions, reducing intake from payroll taxes. Recommended changes...
...Judging from the record, the [steel] industry has become allergic to profits. To look at its performance you would think it had anticipated those who want the profit system abolished, and for all practical purposes had established itself as the first great industry devoted to the idea of production...
...examination system is probably inadequate...
...subject, the Council report has had to deal with a great variety of factors; and considering its subject, a seventy page report is a fairly concise analysis. There is, however, some excess material. The recommendations concerning concentration and distribution, the tutorial system general examinations, the teaching of courses, and the House Plan are largely reiterations of any comments on facts already known to students and Faculty. But on one question, the Council's bloodhounds have struck off on a more original scent. To enable Harvard to regain its illusory objective of a really "liberal" education, the report recommends the establishment...
Such recommendations are impressive. Something is indeed happening to education. The old system is not clicking so well. There are a dozen indications of Faculty, student, and graduate unrest, chiefly caused by the realization that college is no longer doing the job it once did, or might still do under changed conditions. If Harvard is to continue at, or even near, the top of the scholastic heap, it is time to take the cotton of complacency out of the administrative ear, and hearken to proposals such as the one made by the Council...