Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Edward C. Banfield, professor of Government, has been named the first Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Urban Government. The chair, established last fall, honors a former Treasurer and Fellow of the University. Banfield came to Harvard from the University of Chicago...
...defense, the Councilor pointed out among other things: that the tax base has increased $35 million since 1952; that city employees have had five pay raises, while taxes per capita have diminished; and that U.S. Senator Benjamin Smith only recently congratulated Cambridge on its progress in urban renewal...
...Taliaferro County's ludicrously disproportionate political power is a dramatic example of a problem plaguing much of the U.S. In state after state, assembly and senate are still chosen under constitutional provisions drawn decades and even generations ago, when the rural population was bigger than the urban. As a result, one rural vote in Vermont is now equal to 600 city votes in choosing a state senator; the Connecticut hamlet of Union (pop. 383) has one representative v. the two allowed the capital of Hartford; and Los Angeles County (pop. 5,979,203) can send only...
...addition to teaching English, students in the urban areas will provide instruction in other languages, economics, American history, and international affairs on an informal basis. They will live on the cooperatives...
...Awards for urban research next year to honor the late Samuel Stouffer, professor of Sociology, have been made to two MIT students and two members of the GSAS. The Harvard recipients are Leon H. Mayhew (Social Relations) and Stephan A. Thernstrom (History). The Stouffer Fellows will complete research at the Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies...