Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard will not act for itself in coping adequately with the menace of materialism, the General Court can and should intervene. --The Boston Daily Record, Tuesday, March...
...entire question of fulfilling one's military obligation has always been a relatively complex one for the college student, and with the advent of the new "six-month" programs it will become even more so. At first the six-month program, introduced by the Reserve Forces Act of August, 1955, was of relatively minor concern to the college student, since it was applicable only to men below...
...exact effect of the new six-month program is by no means yet definite. Since the raising of reserves is the primary aim of the Reserve Forces Act, it is entirely possible that once the authorized reserve strength is filled, the Act will be discontinued until it is needed again; and since all draftees and enlistees who finish their two years of active duty after August 1957 must spend two years in the ready reserves, reserve and National Guard units may be filled rather rapidly...
...United States Armed Forces have never counted efficiency among their many strongpoints, and their newly revised Reserve Forces Act does very little to remedy these rather regrettable inadequacies. As the reserve forces situation now stands, there is an almost complete duplication of the Army Reserve by the National Guard, and the general air of compromise and confusion surrounding the recent changes in the Reserve Forces Act is indicative of more inefficiencies to come...
Rather than let it do so, the government should act to combine the two into a single Army Reserve which can build up to the nation's total authorized reserve strength in one body. Such a move would eliminate the duplication of personnel and processes which are inevitable under the new system...