Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press had warned the people of something they already knew-this, more than any Congress heretofore, was a session of destiny. Historic Congresses of the past had held in their hands the fate of the Nation; the deliberations of this Congress would affect the state of the world and the shape of the future for generations. Over all legislators, short or tall, laconic or garrulous, thoughtful or frivolous, hung a crushing responsibility. They must help prosecute the war-they perhaps might help to write the peace...
President Conant's report to the Board of Overseers is a sound and stimulating survey of the University in its first year of war. But undergraduates are still primarily interested in their own fate, not in the University's, and they will hunt through the report in vain for remarks affecting their immediate plans. But neither President Conant nor University Hall can or should make recommendations before the facts are all before them. Those facts have not yet come through...
...clock with a program featuring a few of the rumors that have been circulating throughout the Houses. According to Andrew E. Rice '43, one of the officials in charge of the program, these will include speculation on the disposition on the Houses next semester, the fate of many undergraduate organizations, and forthcoming restrictions on the Dining Halls...
Predictions, 1943. As the New Year bowed in, most "experts" refrained from outright prognostications. One who did not was the New York Sun's "Sun Dial" Columnist H. I. Phillips. Sample fate-proof Phillips predictions...
...phases of the plan were "officially interpreted" immediately after its release. Both dealt with the fate of the Army Enlisted Reserve Corps. One other "clarification" dealt with deferments approved by the War Manpower Commission for occupational reasons of both Faculty and students not in the reserves...