Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paul F. Glenn 3L, Law Council president, will recommend at the Council meeting on Monday night the a committee consisting of one man from each major Law School organization be appointed to prepare another referendum draft. "A final poll probably will not be ready for a vote before late January or early February," Glenn said...
...proposed draft of the poll, drawn up last week by members of the Dormitory Council, has been dropped after consultation with Hall, Dean Gruswold, and Lon L. Fuller, Carter, Professor of General Jurisprudence. The dean's felt the proposed draft would be instlequate for obtaining information which the Council and faculty would need. Hall suggested some further questions...
Only since the war have the House libraries and Widener become insufficient for undergraduate needs. To cope with a rising enrollment, the University has crowded more men into the Houses, and the drive for high grades, to obtain draft deferment, has sent more men to the book stacks. These trends combine with a general tightening of the curriculum--one professor says the work required of college students here today is just twice what it was twenty-five years ago--to overtax the libraries...
...When I refuse induction they'll prosecute me, meaning I'll never get naturalized," he continued. He applied for citizenship last fall while doing graduate work in Astronomy. "All the draft board refusals made it extremely hard to study," Fischer reflects. The additional problem of financial worry forced Fischer to consult with the Observatory faculty, who agreed he should drop his studies until his difficulties were smoothed...
...There is a glimmer of hope," he admits, "in the success of some of my friends in getting a reversal over the draft boards rulings against their conscientious objector belief." One pacifist friend, Christopher Fried 3G, was able to get special draft status upon a special appeal, after both the local and state boards had turned him down...