Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inconsistent controls, and from ad hoc decisions, Dean Watson undertook to state this hitherto unwritten policy in explicit and definite form. Dean Watson issued a report to the Council for consideration and criticism. Last year, a Council sub-committee revised these rules. Just recently, copies of this tentative draft were issued by that sub-committee to the recognized undergraduate organizations...
...Both Dean Watson and the Council realized at the time of issuance and realize now that there are many sections of this tentative draft which must be corrected or eliminated entirely. The draft was merely presented as a basis of discussion with the various organizations. It is not now and had never been treated as in any way final, and has never been presented to either the Faculty Committee or to the Council...
...When the necessary corrections have been made, the revised draft will once more be submitted to the student organizations for further comments. Nothing will be passed without careful consideration of the opinions of all organizations...
...Themes. Two of the best in Editor Ciardi's collection are Robert Lowell 33 and Delmore Schwartz, 36. Lowell, an' old-family New Englander whose natural taste for rebellion led him to Roman Catholicism and then to pacifism and jail for evading the draft, writes richly rhetorical verses in which he is not afraid to work with the old human themes-death, war and ambition. Schwartz, a Brooklyn poet on whom the experience of Jewish immigrant life has left an indelible mark of irony, writes poems that are calculatedly flat, wry and witty...
...year ago this week, the Western Allies accepted the draft for a German constitution proffered by the Bonn Convention. Since its establishment, the government has been a success in some respects as far as the Allies are concerned. It has remained free of Communist influence. It has also resisted daily offers from the Russian-controlled East State to confederate. Economically, according to the Economic Cooperation Administration, its industrial recovery has been "rapid and dramatic." This is a pleasing report for Western Powers who, according to John J. McCloy, U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, consider control of Germany the primary goal...