Word: extents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...questionnaire, as indeed the Crimson off and on terms it. The essence of a poll or survey is selection. The essence of a questionnaire is voluntary response. This was a questionnaire, answered by those seniors, and only those seniors, who so wished. The questionnaire sought to discover the extent of potential draft resistance among seniors, but more than half the class did not respond. Into what category are these non-responders likely to fall? Can anyone doubt that it will be into the category of those not sufficiently hostile to the war and the draft to fill out the document...
...poll is very different from actually refusing induction and risking incarceration. But even granting that the number of people who intend to go to jail if necessary is vastly larger than those who will finally end up in prison, intentions nonetheless can tell us a great deal about the extent of disaffection on campus...
After this there can be little doubt in anyone's mind as to the extent of anti-war sentiment at Harvard. What is surprising is that 38 per cent of those who are against the war are now calling for immediate withdrawal. If anything, this shows that radical solutions are becoming eminently respectable among students. Another 42 per cent said the military effort should "be reduced on the assumption that it will lead to a negotiated peace," indicating that a vast majority of those polled were in favor of some form of military pullback...
During the night, surgeons tried to perform an "exploratory diagnostic procedure" on Vernaglia to determine the extent of his head injuries, Dr. John B. Vernaglia '26, the uncle of the attacked student said yesterday. However, because of Vernaglia's "agitated condition," doctors could not complete the procedure, Dr. Vernaglia, a surgeon, said. He emphasized that this procedure was not an operation, and that so far doctors have performed no operations on Vernaglia...
...some extent this argument depends on terminology rather than fact. Today we have heard our situation described in religious terms, moral terms, political terms, legal terms, and psychological terms. Very few of us are at home in all these different modes of speech, and each of us habitually uses only one of them to talk and think in. But what is happening today should make it clear that that these different modes of speech, all overlap one another and they often all say the same essential things. Albert Camus, who struggled in a more serious Resistance than ours, believed that...