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...post-war year Conant has crusaded for a more logical method of making scientific decisions in a democracy--"one of my lost causes"--and a stronger public school system. The principle focus for his scrutiny has been, however what he calls "the mess we are making of our draft." The present system of deferments he feels, is both inefficient and undemocratic. It should be replaced by a plan of Universal Military Service under which all men would serve a regular term in the army automatically on leaving high school. In advocating this he has been attached by the far right...
...first major post-war riot did not occur until November of 1949, when the Princeton football team came to tow About 150 Tiger partisans started Friday night rally; 200 Harvard men moved in to break it up, only to be followed by 50 University and Cambridge police...
Provided the weather holds, the ruggers anticipate the largest game attendance for any post-war rugby match on the east coast. They have borrowed a sound truck from the Boston Navy base and are broadcasting a play by play explanation of the action for uninitiated spectators...
Determined to better their pitiful one and four post-war record against the Crimson, 19 Dartmouth skiers sped to victory Saturday in the annual Harvard-Dartmouth Slalom on Mt. Washington...
...been possible to have moved into post-war China in a big way with a program of supervised loans to small farmers, the whole history of Asia would have been changed," Wallace stated. "There is no time to be lost. Five years may be too late in a country like India...