Word: used
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Obinani blamed the present ghetto condition of Bedford-Stuyvesant on "anti-poverty landlords who exploit the ghetto" and professional planners with no social conscience." He added that the training of the 80 people, most of whom had no city planning experience, was preferable to the use of professional planners "who have been involved in making the situation in the ghetto what it is today...
...seem little more than glorified caretakers, but a 1965 vote of the Massachusetts legislature made them full policemen on University property. The distinction is more than semantic. Campus police have the power of arrest, and in the case of crime on the Harvard campus, they're expected to use it. The arrest process is dangerous for any officer, and the University Police deserve personal protection no less than their Cambridge counterparts...
...details of last week's shooting are admittedly peculiar. The use of the pistol was clearly legal, since the thief threatened the officer's life by driving the stolen bike at him. But the policeman apparently fired the shot only after the bike had passed, hitting the bike's driver in the back--which could raise some question about the officer's judgment in resorting to his pistol...
...lecture system at Harvard gives Professors a chance to develop their ideas on some chosen topic at length and regularly over a period of time. It is far superior to the British, system, say, in which lectures are sporadic events to be made use of or not as the mood strikes one. Nevertheless, the course system at Harvard does not work very well largely because all the reading is assigned--as if it will be done simultaneously with the lectures. Another drawback is that the educational process is rounded off, in good European fashion, by a massive examination...
...letter offered to use students to provide "expert testimony." But Wilcox wrote that since "only a fraction" of the Committee's time is spent on undergraduate affairs, regular undergraduate participation would not be profitable...