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This policy is the latest Air Force which in the past has made the unit here both unpopular and unpopulated. In the spring of 1954, the service informed the Harvard AFROTC that all seniors who would not fly, could not be commissioned. Students in the administrative program, despite heated protests to Washington, received slight compensation: opportunities to serve in the Air National Guard. This move, unjust as it was, caused a rapid drop in the enrollment of the College's unit until, by this fall, AFROTC was the smallest of the three services here...
Under the terms of the agreement that the clubs' presidents drew up, the Constitution, by-laws, and resolutions of the NCC will remain in effect. What the merger really provides is the dissolution of the unpopular HCL, and the creation of one undergraduate organization to represent Conservatism...
...truth which we Americans prefer to ignore: that certain moral principles can and do transcend mere personal happiness. I don't want "popularity" and "happiness" first of all for my children; if they attain the moral stature I wish for them I know they will often be both unpopular and unhappy...
...unpopular in Holmes County, Miss. is to criticize the sheriff for mistreating a Negro. When good-looking, dark-haired Mrs. Hazel Brannon Smith, 41, tried this in the two weeklies she owns and edits, she found herself on the losing end of a libel suit filed by the sheriff. But last week, thanks to a Mississippi Supreme Court decision, Editor Smith's courageous editorial voice had the last-and winning-word...
...home. Butler's face flushed, and one or two of his back-bench supporters deserted him and voted with the Laborites when the division came. In the end, the Tories had the votes, and Butler's budget would be accepted; yet his remedies were not only unpopular, they were also, to many minds, inadequate...