Records, 1966-1967.

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Records, 1966-1967.

Contains minutes, surveys, reports, and documentation on draft laws and the Selective Service System. Includes material related to the occupation of the Administration Building by students, May 11-16, 1966; class ranking practices at other schools; and statements by administrators, faculty and students regarding the use of student ranking by draft boards.

5 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7650912

University of Chicago Library

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Dunham, Allison

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United States. Selective Service System

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Huey Pierce Long was born on August 30, 1893, in Winnfield, La. He briefly attended the University of Oklahoma School of Law in Norman, Okla., and later Tulane University Law School in New Orleans, La. He practiced law in Winnfield and later in Shreveport, La. Long was a member of the Louisiana Railroad Commission (later the Louisiana Public Service Commission) (1918-1928), governor of Louisiana (1928-1932), and U.S. Senator from Louisiana (1932-1935). Charismatic and immensely popular for his s...

University of Chicago. Student-Faculty Committee on the University Policy of Submitting Rank to Draft Boards.

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A committee was appointed in May 1966 by the Council of the University Senate to study the university's policy of submitting rank upon the request of the student to his local draft board. Growing dissatisfaction with the University's policy of compiling male class ranks had culminated with the occupation of the Administration Building for six days by groups of students. Another committee was appointed to examine in greater depth the first committee's findings. Allison Dunham chaired the first co...

University of Chicago.

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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...

Fiske, Donald Winslow, 1916-

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Donald Winslow Fiske was born in Lincoln, New Hampshire on August 27, 1916. He earned his A.B. in philosophy in 1937 and his A.M. in psychology in 1939 both from Harvard University. He took his first teaching position in 1939 at Cambridge Junior College and remained there until 1941. During this time he was also an assistant at Harvard, Radcliffe, Wellesley, and Phillips Academy. Fiske joined the aviation psychology section of the U.S. Navy in 1942 and was named head of ...