Word: voluntaryism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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But as Putnam sees it, that would be unfair to the Center's aims. His group, he says, is not trying to provide ordinary opportunities for voluntary service, and many of the would-be volunteers who inquire at the office are referred to more conventional organizations--the Red Cross, the...
More than 130 years ago, DeTocqueville observed that the tendency of Americans to form voluntary associations was one of the strengths of our democracy. Yet the value of such groups, as well as the opinion of them held abroad, is severely undercut if government agencies operating in the dark even...
It was a considerable victory for the workers and SDS since Jewish Memorial was the first private voluntary hospital in Massachusetts where non-professional workers have succeeding in forming a union. SDS joined with organizations like the Congress of Racial Equality in 1959-60 to organize the first private voluntary...
Breezing In. Because standards vary from state to state and city to city, a strong law in one area can be made a mockery by pollutants from a neighboring community. Chicago has been attempting to police pollution caused by steel plants, but 70% of the steel production in the Chicago...
Yale has began experimenting with such an instructional physical education program. Faculty members with interests in camping, hiking, moun- rain-climbing and even field ornithology are recruited to teach freshmen. "A voluntary program like this would be good," says Cutler. "Even if we did away with PT's, we could...