Word: hardships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...underestimation of the depth of anti-war feeling at Harvard and a revealing portrait of the lack of anti-war leadership here. Students can be mobilized into effective action when they are presented with effective means of protest. The Dow demonstration showed that students do not need the artificial hardship of a fast to arouse their political awareness...
...board members in terms of their definition of the "national interest." The Cambridge draft board has 733 men classified II-S. Under the new law, which went into effect on July 1, 1967, a student classified II-S will not be able to obtain a III-A (hardship) classification for fatherhood without also proving that his leaving the home would cause extreme hardship...
...need for softening the present rule, which forces many students into two full years of foreign language study, has become increasingly evident. A proliferation of paignant hardship cases has made the administrative board chafe under a strict rule that limits exemptions to those with a medically attested learning disability. And as one language professor wryly noted last week, the rule has helped induce a Cambridge epidemic of that rare disease--strephosymbolia. A subclause of the new plan wisely allows the ad board to excuse a student from the requirement if his instructor says that further language study would...
...second day in jail, King fell ill with a virus, and was later transferred to a Birmingham jail equipped with better facilities. After four days, King was freed. "We don't want to work hardship on anybody," said Circuit Judge William C. Barber. "He's served enough time...
...squarely in the old spine-tingling tradition. "Ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country." And more: "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." There was an affirmation in the best spirit of patriotic oratory, and it forced the blood up into the temples of people who never really expected to feel that...