Word: polk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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William R. Polk '51 went to the Middle East last summer and made a report on student conditions there, while James P. Grant 3L prepared a similar report as Southeast Asia. Conclusions from both were similar: students tended to favor democracy, yet found their countries hindered because of the high illiteracy raise...
Grant and Polk stated that seminar projects should be encouraged in keeping with the growing favor shown toward democracy. They contended that the only way the students could understand democracy would be to show them how it operates in different countries...
Last week the Pentagon took steps to dispel this strategists' nightmare. It announced that two U.S. National Guard divisions will begin moving next month to Japan. The 40th (California) now at Camp Cooke, and the 45th (Oklahoma), at Camp Polk (La.), will finish their training at Japanese bases. While stationed in Japan they will "provide additional security" for that country...
Arlington, Mass.; William R. Polk of Fort Worth, Texas and Winthrop; and John T. Hazel of Arlington, Mass. and Kirkland...
...twelfth place developed when Hazel and Polk received an equal number of plurality votes. Benjamin F. MacDonald '52, who conducted the election, then proceeded to call each member of the Student Council by telephone. A majority agreed that the tie should be broken by adding another man to the group...