Word: council
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comments at a recent Student-Faculty Advisory Council meeting Captain Moriatry of Navy ROTC made a useful distinction between operational courses (e.g., leadership, weapons systems, military operations and administration, marine navigation) and policy courses (e.g., U.S. foreign policy and the role of the military). He indicated that it is the Navy's belief that Harvard prefers to have its won regular professors teach courses on policy matters at Harvard. The Army, though, offers just such a course: Military Science 4hf--"Operations and Military Administration"--includes "a survey of the role of the United States in world affairs...
...difficult to determine how the Military Services would respond to the withdrawal of credit. According to information presented by the Harvard Undergraduate Council in its fact sheet, Major Folk of Air Force ROTC "was of the opinion that a loss of academic credit would mean a loss of prestige and participation, and the eventual withdrawal of AFROTC...
...national stress, there is an upsurge in quasi-religious activities." At any rate, the possibilities of additional religious games are intriguing. There might be Inquisition, for instance, in which the loser would go directly to hell and bypass purgatory. Or, in a more contemporary vein, there might be Vatican Council ("Don't Cross Ottaviani") or Encyclical ("Congratulations! You have planned your family well and are entitled to one bonus baby...
...warned: "We put black racists on notice that we are determined to use every legal means to let no one get away with any efforts to inflict pain or suffering on any Jewish person." In the current issue of Commentary, Earl Raab, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council in San Francisco, argues that the black-white confrontation in America raises anew "the Jewish question"?the place of Jews in a secular democratic society. "The Jewish question is alive again because the American political structure and its traditional coalitions are in naked transition," writes Raab. "The common democratic...
...group of Negro tenement dwellers presented their grievances against their Jewish landlord to a beth din, or religious court. "This was a bunch of very old guys who haven't read James Baldwin or Rap Brown," says Boston's Leonard Fein, "and they wouldn't know a social-action council if they fell over it. But they know the Talmud and the Bible." Using these texts, the judges improvised a solution that satisfied both sides. The landlord agreed to make overdue repairs, and his tenants promised to do their share in good housekeeping. So far the bargain has been kept...