Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years from now?--but the real issue is broader. Cambridge, more than ever before, will become a national city. The John F. Kennedy Memorial was placed in the heart of Harvard Square to bring it closer to the University and make it a truly "urban memorial." Leaving the memorial to be surrounded with large ugly buildings will only show the worst of urban America and will naturally detract from both the physical stature and the spirit of the entire complex...
Even more concrete, he explained CORE's program in the City of Baltimore this summer. After analyzing the political and economic structure of the city, CORE staff -- black and white -- made a catalog of the problems of the lower-class, urban community. After talking with them at considerable length, they established priorities as to grievances with which the organization would deal. A systematic program was formulated...
...clerical students are in residence in Rome, Catholicism's foremost university town, studying for baccalaureate, licentiate (roughly equivalent to a master's) or doctoral degrees in philosophy and theology. During the mornings, they listen to lectures at either the Greg, the smaller Lateran (1,500 students), Urban (900) and Angelicum (700) universities, or at one of the eleven assorted institutes and "athenaea" operated by the church's big religious orders. The rest of the day they work, study and pray at 39 residential colleges maintained by national hierarchies and religious congregations...
California Postcards. Zeroing in on urban problems, Reagan points out that in California murder is up 14.4% in one year, robbery 9%, rape 5.3%, narcotics arrests for juveniles 34.9%, and that for every dollar spent on education $1.11 is spent on crime. He asks: "How do we explain the ugly fact that there's twice as much crime in proportion to our population as there is in the rest of the nation...
Dirty Hands. Bank Street was one of the first teachers colleges to accent the special problems of urban schools, and it did so by plunging into on-the-spot work in New York's poorest neighborhoods. Says a Columbia Teachers College professor: "Bank Street was willing to go down and dirty its hands in the New York City schools at a time when Columbia and New York University wouldn't be caught dead there." The Bank Street staff now advises teachers in 24 Harlem area schools under foundation contracts...