Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...autumn of 1928, Harvard was well on its way to becoming an urban university: if not a Paris, then a Boston University or CCNY. Increased admissions had created a mass of undergraduates living at random about Cambridge, eating at cheap counters along Massachusetts Avenue, and split into numerous factions, of which the club group along the Gold Coast was the most notable. Whatever American tradition of college life Harvard had once possessed was menaced with suffocation in the unmanageable mass of undergraduates...
...first practical reaper. The Negro was his slave Jo Anderson, whose devoted work had helped perfect the machine. In the 123 years since, Inventor McCormick's International Harvester Co. has not forgotten the way its founder and Jo Anderson worked together. This week, in Manhattan, the National Urban League honored International Harvester with its "Industrial Statesmanship" Award for the company's steady, uncompromising policy of nondiscrimination in industry...
What pleased the Urban League was not so much that Harvester gives equal opportunity to Negroes in its 19 Northern and Western plants-other companies also do that-but that Harvester has carried a clear-cut policy of nondiscrimination into the South itself. Partly because of Jo Anderson and partly because Harvester has found that Negro workers in general are just as good as white, it declined to conform to the local policy of discrimination when it opened plants after World War II in Memphis and Louisville, and the results, said the Urban League, are an object lesson...
...these classes one finds, also, a resist ance to any discussion that roams beyond the literal confines of the subject. In teaching general anthropology, the teacher can feel that he is losing some of the class if he refers to Babbitt or to Shakespeare, or speaks of the urban modernism of Rome as shown in Horace's Satires. (A good part of the class will never have heard of Horace.) . . . There is a definite resistance to erudition as such . . . [The teacher] tends to narrow his presentation . . . He cannot assume that he and the class have any common points...
...called for such humanitarian goals as the broadening of social security (TIME, Jan. 25). One sentence in the budget message was enough to illustrate that Dwight Eisenhower was not trying to shunt 20 years of history. Said he: "On the other hand, estimated expenditures for the Tennessee Valley Authority,* urban development and redevelopment, college housing loans . . . the school lunch program, and several other programs of domestic importance will be the largest in our history...