Word: uses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voted down efforts by Commissioners Milton Cook and David Mintz to amend or postpone approval of the measure. Mintz questioned whether state support of the project was a proper use of public funds and urged a reexamination on this score...
...use an expression from my own metier, thinking wide-screen. This new project should not be a watered-down brew of local semi-professional theatre, governed by an enormous and unwieldly board of wrangling representatives. It is a broadly-conceived plan to bring the best in drama (and music as well) from all over the world to a superb theatre in the Greater Boston community...
...president, William Morris Hunt, have been chosen by MeBAC as the organization best fitted to carry out such a plan. Although Mr. Hunt is producer and "theatre man" of considerable accomplishment, I am sure he does not plan to use MeBAC to advance some drama group of his own at the expense of independent theatres--he would act as general supervisor of the whole project, would act as booking agent (as he has done with John Gielgud, the Theatre Nationale Populaire, and so on), and would no doubt also hire producers to present shows which would originate here in Boston...
Nevertheless, despite these shortcomings, basic training is fundamentally a good system for initiating civilians to military life, but for the Army not to take advantage of its men's intelligence seems a waste of time and money. By raising the--I hate to use the word--intellectual standards of basic training, the Army could reduce the time now necessary to teach the raw fundamentals and at the same time increase the amount of training offered in the six month period...
Harvard can, of course, work to reverse some of this pressure. It could attempt to make greater use of Dean Bender's policy of basing admissions on a broader range of talent than mere academic proficiency. It could try to check the growth in quantity of course work. It could cultivate in its undergraduates the realization that their value to society has little to do with their Group standing. It could affirm the value of organized non-academic activity and encourage participation in extra-curricular work beyond the level of encouragement it has so far maintained...