Word: volunteerism
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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We can send the volunteer armed forces overseas as our mercenary army and not really feel threatened. It is so much easier when these poor, unemployed, under-educated, minority "volunteers" fight for us. We can hire them to fight in our place, and as the ruling class and not the...
Most black parents are far more concerned about good teachers, discipline and curriculum. And it is parental involvement that makes Dumas special. Upwards of 60 parents (all women) volunteer on any given day to work as teacher's aides, help out in the cafeteria or cut up frogs for biology...
Polls suggest that young Americans are sometimes more eager for battle, or anyway less wary. A 20-year-old seaman aboard the U.S.S. Wisconsin in the gulf wrote to his family, "I am glad I am the only one of my generation in our family to volunteer to serve his...
Pale sunlight streams into the spare classroom of Richard Clark, an Anglo English teacher. Clark, an austere-looking man with a crew cut and a deeply lined face, has been teaching at the academy for nine years. At the blackboard, several sophomores are diagraming sentences. A timid girl with glasses...
In his November 19 opinion piece ["Bring Back the Draft,"] John L. Larew proposes the draft as the best solution to an effective discrimination against the "poor and ignorant" who volunteer for the army and die while Harvard men think of clever ways to evade it.