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...membership. In short, we have been laying the foundations for that drive toward national prominence and widespread influence which will bring to the HYDC in the years to come its due recognition." One of Winans' specific objectives is to "acquire sufficient prestige and influence within Massachusetts so as to use our endorsement as a major weapon in the fight for more honest government in the Commonwealth." It is a praiseworthy, but unrealistic hope...
...World Federalists hope to strengthen the UN and prohibit "by law the use of force or threat of force by nations in international affairs," and provide "an agreed schedule for universal and complete disarmament." The Federalists "are not entirely singleminded," president Jay Kadane '62 commented, "and we try to find speakers with rational arguments against our position...
Radcliffe Business Manager Stewart Stearns admited that plans for the motel had taken him somewhat by surprise. "We never owned the building," he added, "and have leased it for use as a dormitory only during the last two years...
...Williams has complaints other than those arising from the academic personality. He has little use for the grading system, and especially for the university's tendency to equate academic standards with the number of low grades given--"the domineering element in the student's relation to his education is--the grade." He expresses his skepticism of: admissions examinations, small classes, general education, restricted college enrollments, long presidential tenures, professor-administrators, and the "publish or perish" theory. On the credit side, he thinks that the high schools are better than they were thirty years ago. He debunks the professors who deplore...
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...