Word: elements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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STUDENT: I know. "Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must be taken into account...
Alan Austin '70, president of the Freshman Council, said last night he believes the program will not work unless small groups of freshmen are assigned to blocs of freshman associates. At present, whole entries are assigned to blocs of freshman associates and the element of individual responsibility is absent...
Another draw-back of the volunteer army, from the radical point of view, is that such an army will swallow up the most energetic element of the ghetto. The college-trained Negro will not be interested in the army; industry is opening up to him. The poorest Negroes will not be able to pass the physical or mental tests. It is the aspiring Negro, the man who still believes he can get more than he has, who will be attracted to the volunteer army. And is that the best place for him? Should he become part of an ingrown bureaucracy...
...prospective victory in 1968 with a "moderate candidate," after a "wide-open convention" without domination by "any one element of the party...
...protect. Selective Service, in an attempt to modify the harsher aspects of the 2-S, has turned the task of helping to select draftable students over to the professors. Many teachers are unwilling to do the dirty-work, and feel that Selective Service has introduced an extraneous and corrosive element into student-faculty relations...