Word: deferments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many Harvard students, to study abroad is becoming an increasingly remote prospect. In the past most undergraduates seeking foreign education have simply taken a year off, traveling and studying at their leisure. But, since most draft boards refuse to defer a student not working directly toward degree requirements, the recent lowering of the draft age to 21 has barred many from taking leaves of absence...
What's Reasonable? Black was often in hot opposition to his social friend and judicial enemy, Justice Frankfurter, who believed that "judicial restraint" required judges to defer to administrators and legislators as being more expert and closer to the public will. Unwise policies should be corrected at the ballot box, Frankfurter argued; it is neither democratic nor efficient for nine lifetime judges to issue rigid orders about matters best left to elected compromisers...
...spokesman for national Selective Service headquarters in Washington said yesterday that the Army would not defer a student who takes a year off between college and graduate school, even if he has been accepted by a grad school. "They're on their own after they leave college, and they run a good chance of being drafted," he said...
...convinced that any budget can be pared a little without doing significant damage. Yet the record of the subcommittee hearings also indicates that they hesitated to appropriate money for projects such as the development of the M-1 rocket, which were not yet ready for production. They wanted to defer part of the NASA request until the next fiscal year. In doing so, they appeared a little less impressed with the crucial need for immediate action on the moon program than before...
...quality of the Harvard and B.U. buildings. With the Holyoke Center we now "only see the first half, so if we are horrified we must wait and see the other half." Speaking about the B.U. complex comprising the student center, library, and law school tower, he hoped people would "defer judgment until the whole mess is there...