Word: units
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Although the Social Security Board is explicitly barred from imposing standards of its own upon the state and local appointive power, the Board is instructed to direct its attention to the proper enforcement of the law." Thus the Board will have more and more to do with each unit of government listed under the social security program run by experts and this is "rat poison for the machine...
Similar to the Harvard House Plan, Yale's college plan formulated in 1928 and financed by Edward S. Harkness, donor of the Harvard buildings, will be completed by the addition of Silliman. At present, there is raging in New Haven a controversy over the architectural appearance of the projected unit. The Yale Daily News, in an editorial printed Friday, cried "Save Silliman...
...afforded a last gasp to redeem herself architecturally," says the News, referring to the off-criticized mongrel variety of Yale's architecture. "Grimly we recognize the implausibility of a functional building in the midst of Gothic-Georgian-Renaissance-Egyptian settings, but if we must have our new college unit in one of these outmoded and clumsy styles, let us at least have it all of one piece...
...Social Service unit, which is headed by Irving S, Michelman '39, announced yesterday that it had enlisted 160 volunteers this Fall and hoped soon to have more than 200 men engaged in boys' club work at the 30 Boston and Cambridge settlement houses served...
...every History 1 student knows after the final lecture, history is like a pendulum swinging from one extreme to the other. At one time, the Scholastics tried unit. In modern times we have swung too far in the other direction, for learning is now concentrated in small, widely-separated, ultra-specialized fields. Subjects which have natural connections, e.g., government and history, have been unnaturally separated into water-tight compartments. And because all communication has been cut off between him and his neighbors, each specialist has become less efficient and less productive. Obviously, it is necessary to start in the other...