Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grand Tour was not already a relic, draft board officials are doing their best to crush its last vestiges. But this is not actually their intention, and under the present system they can do little else...
This does not sound particularly oppressive so far. But due to the electronic perversity of IBM machines, notably those in University Hall, the grades which draft board officials use in determining a student's status do not appear until middle or late July. By then, the modern bicycle version of the grand tour is quite out of the question, except for those few fanatic enough to nip over and back at great expense per hour of enjoyment gained. Most would-be travelers stay home. This has happened to several local undergraduates, and probably many other students as well...
...their home-rule charter. Elected delegates headed by Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, Antonio Fernós-Isern, conned every line of the U.S. Constitution and the 48 state charters. With such expert constitutionalists as Harvard's Carl Friedrich on hand to advise on sticky points, they wrote draft after draft, debating each clause like so many tropical Madisons and Hamiltons. Their bill of rights, written under the guidance of University Rector Jaime Benitez, is their special pride & joy. Revising Thomas Jefferson, it proclaims "the right to life, liberty and the enjoyment of property." It forbids wiretapping and capital...
Manpower needs of the armed forces may force the ending of student draft deferment within the next two or three years, the American Council on Education was told last Saturday. The announcement came at the close of the Council's 35th annual conference, held this year in Chicago...
Entitled" Urfaust," the play is a first draft of "Faust," and was written early in the author's life. The plot centers around the Margarita episode, with many seenes in the finished version omitted...