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...ferments for work they plan to do with VISTA in June stand a high chance of having their deferments revoked. Feeney said. "The deferment was predicted on the OEO request. If the local draft boards don't take the [April 23] request into consideration, they're rather remiss...
...faculty would be remiss in its duties if it didn't consider the opinion of a group of students who have put real thought to matters important to the Law School," Bok said...
...Despite occasional heroic efforts, the Episcopal Church as a whole has been unexpectedly remiss in its concern for theological education." So concludes a special committee set up by the church in 1964 to study the Episcopal ministerial education program. Titled "Ministry for Tomorrow," the committee's 160-page report was published this week by the Seabury Press...
Johnny doesn't add very well. According to results of a major survey of math instruction in twelve nations* released last week, the U.S. is startlingly remiss in teaching its children how to add, subtract or solve calculus problems. Despite U.S. prestige as the world's leading technological power, American 13-year-olds ranked a low eleventh in their understanding of math-outscoring only children from Sweden, and lagging well behind those from Japan...
...seem, is essential to the efficient functioning of our armed forces," conceded Judge Homer Ferguson. "But when it is perverted into an excuse for retaliating against a soldier for doing only that which Congress has expressly said it wishes him to be free to do, this court would be remiss if it did not condemn the effort to persecute him." Schmidt's announcement that he would write the papers "to expose to public view the unlawful and unjust measures which have been taken against him does not amount to an unlawful threat or an extortionate communication...