Word: watchdogged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...body of the report deals with four specific complaints which have been levelled at the HSA, and admits that three of them are justified. Nevertheless, the authors of the report conclude that the HSA "is fulfilling its self-appointed task." Hopefully, the Council watchdog appointed to keep a close eye on the HSA will prove to be one valuable result of the report, and will keep the Student Body informed of the doings of the HSA, but the report offers no other solutions to few abuses whose existence it admits...
Plant. In Brooklyn, when two men robbed James Johnson's grocery of $50, Johnson's watchdog did not make a move, but when Police Captain Frederick Kowsky arrived to investigate...
...zeal seems ill-considered. The informal suggestion from one of the committee members last year that a filtering committee be established to prevent any future appointments of communists, or whomever is adjudged objectionable, is of course pernicious. Appointments to the faculty are amply reviewed as it is, and a watchdog committee would quickly extend its baleful influence. The Veritas Foundation, which considers that Harvard graduates at present are taught by a predominantly "leftist" faculty, would presumably try to correct this imbalance. Any such attempt would jeopardize the freedom this University has maintained for its faculty members--one of its finest...
...main argument for keeping the act on the books is that defense equipment has become so complex, and changes so fast, that past production and cost experience are not enough to forecast and avoid exorbitant profits. The Government, say renegotiation advocates, needs a watchdog agency to take a long legal second look at every major defense contract. While contractors go along with this, they argue that renegotiation decisions are so capricious that what are considered normal profits for one contractor are called excessive for another...
...unfortunately. For the inadequacies of present-day education, where uninspired, underpaid teachers and administrators are willing to go along with any convenient, easy, well-tried program, demand that some sort of watchdog eye be placed on the schools, to insure that the best possible education can be achieved. Education in this part of the twentieth century has become an all-out community affair, with the isolationism of the academic school of the nineteenth century gone forever. The new--as one authors calls the "life-centered"--approach to education demands the interaction of the student with the community, effected through school...