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Almost 30 years ago, Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed into law the Social Security Act. At the moment of signing, he issued a statement that, in retrospect, sounds almost apologetic: "We have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the average citizen and his family against the loss of a job and against poverty-ridden old age. This law, too, represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means complete. It is a structure intended to lessen the force of possible future depressions...
...have to wax eloquent or be a rah-rah" to recruit at Harvard (and a few other schools, including Yale, Berkeley, and Stanford), Delano insisted. "A greater degree of self-awareness" accounts for an acceptance average at these schools which is about twice as high as that of the nation as a whole, he said...
...Delano estimated that over 70 percent of Harvard applicants to the Peace Corps will be accepted. Last year 125 members of the graduating class actually entered the Corps, but this was not the exact group which signed during recruiting. The success of last year's drive "astounded" Delano...
...most part, Delano was given a polite reception when he spoke in classes. But in at least one instance, an anthropology class, "just where you'd expect the best reception," every-one was rather cynical, according to another senior...
...drop in Peace Corps recruiting may well be due to the fact that students agree with Delano that "some-time in your life you must be a volunteer, or you will regret it." But the competition for volunteer time is increasing, and one Cliffie commented that she would not choose the Peace Corps as she once might have done, "because I'd rather work in Mississippi and solve my own country's problems...