Word: voluntaryism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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No amount of legislation or flat can bring racial equality. It will come slowly, and can spring only from the considered and deliberate action of individuals. For this reason, the voluntary levelling of racial barriers in collegiate sports is of an importance almost impossible to overestimate. Here is an area...
Radcliffe's adoption of the conservation plan supplanted an undergraduate movement for voluntary self-rationing in the dormitories.
"We feel the contributions ought to be voluntary," Bingham says, "and therefore we are not adding a percentage to the tickets as is being done at some athletic contests. In other Olympic games this has worked quite satisfactorily; in fact we had contributed $1000 to the 1940 Olympic preliminaries before...
In his radio address Truman also asked every family to "save a slice of bread every day," and public eating places to "serve bread and butter only by request." This demand will suggest to the Council the reestablishment of the voluntary rationing program of the spring and summer of 1946...
This approach clearly could not succeed without wide student approval. The Council must swing into action on existing long-range plans by immediately polling in the dining halls. If the student body lends a mandate to conservation, the Council could then present the University with its final proposals-and ask...