Word: presentments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alternative to the present system, offered by the Cordiner Committee, a House subcommittee on manpower needs, proposed to create an all volunteer armed service by increasing incentives in those areas which do not attract many volunteers now. But even assuming the services could support themselves in this manner, it is unlikely that the concept of universal service would have been scrapped. The draft has proven an effective way of putting at least some bright young men in uniform, men who might not volunteer for duty...
Conceivably, one could extend Estey's ideas into areas of social service, medical experimentation--those varieties of public service which conscientious objectors now fulfill under the label "alternative service." Our present concepts of manpower, when one considers the possible use of men now deferred, seem most unimaginative...
...draft has been extended in its present form, nonetheless. Whether or not ideas of manpower will change in the next four years remains to be seen...
...recent Student Council committee report calling for greater institution-alization of informal student-faculty relations in the Houses drew criticism yesterday, as Masters defended the present system...
...present, the University offers only a few elementary courses in Armenian. "When the chair is established," Gibbnoted, "a full selection of courses will first be offered on the graduate level. Eventually, we expect that Armenian will be an undergraduate field of concentration...