Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this ruling now lies, according to Dean Buck and Gummere, largely in the lap of Congress, and depends on the action they take on the draft. If by May 15 Selective Service Boards are continuing to draft 18 year olds, then the admission policy may be changed to allow high school seniors to get one or two terms in the College before they are called. "We can't close the doors to Freshmen," the Provost said...
...Jinnah first publicly plumped for Pakistan.* A hundred thousand followers thronged into the shade of a huge pandal (big tent) in Lahore, where the League was meeting, overflowed into the scorching heat outside, heard Jinnah proclaim over the loudspeaker: ". . . The only course open to us all is to allow the major nations [of India] to separate to their homelands." He warned that any democratic government in a unified India which gave Moslems a permanent minority "must lead to civil war and the raising of private armies." An enthusiastic woman follower tore off her veil, came from behind the purdah screen...
These are the problems facing President Conant as he returns to fulltime duty. If their solution is to be part of an active liberal tradition, the President must turn to intimate and personal contact with the inner workings of the college. To allow policy to stem from intermediate and lesser sources is to give the lie to the prophecy that the next years will be the years of "Conant's Harvard," much as the College of the beginning of the century was "Eliot's Harvard," and "the Great Harvard." It is not a matter of imposing the will...
...called upon for decisions far removed from the test-tube and University classroom. His firm contention in 1942 that the bomb could shorten the war came at a time when high military officials considered the whole scheme expendable. It was a force behind President Roosevelt's decision to allow the project to grow beyond the blueprint stage. Later in 1942, Conant, as a member of the Baruch Committee, was asked to find an answer to the rubber, shortage, while, as a member of the still-secret N.D.R.C., he was trying to use the same dwindling stocks of gasoline and construction...
...effort to make the programs as flexible as possible, the Committee will allow a wide range in the choice of courses, and some students may be sent to Washington between their first and second years for "interneships" in relevant governmental agencies...