Word: request
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...University upon request will send a grade transcript to the local board, Selective Service will then reclassify all men in the upper half of their class and defer them until graduation. The lower half will be assured of being ignored by their local boards at least until June...
...entire issue was started by a request from Talcott Parsons, professor of Sociology, who asked whether Radcliffe girls would want a proposed Social Relations course on emotional problems. Council decided that such a course would not meet the growing need and curiosity...
Literature in the Annex library on sex and marriage will also increase by $35 this year, and will be moved to closed reserved shelves rather than be available only on special request...
...special envoy of the new government. He tried to persuade President Theodore Roosevelt that Korea should not be handed over to Japan in the Russo-Japanese peace conference which Roosevelt had arranged. Roosevelt, Rhee remembers, "received me cordially" at Oyster Bay; but Rhee's request to attend the peace conference was refused. In the Treaty of Portsmouth, victorious Japan won a virtual protectorate over Korea...
...true," he said, "that the request for an oath is per se a violation of academic freedom. To 98 per cent of the faculty a statement disavowing membership in the Communist Party is like a statement against sin, and 100 per cent have cheerfully taken an oath to support the democratic Constitutions of both the nation and state. It is the height of absurdity to compare [as some of the objectors have done] an oath forswearing membership in a conspiratorial antidemocratic organization with an oath supporting the dictatorship of Hitler or Mussolini . . . Some hysteria-mongers to the contrary notwithstanding, this...