Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from whence this outrageous outburst of outgushings? The flushings of my toilet training stage that now descend upon my head, the leavings of an age...
...chain of hopeless events will leave this mass of politicized draft-age students ripe for radicalization. The frustration of hard work and crushed hopes will most likely provide the alienating experience necessary to create new radical converts...
...March 30, ex-President Theodore Roosevelt '80 told a CRIMSON reporter that he advocated universal military training for all American males between 19 and 21. This brought renewed fervor for the war, and on May 2 President Lowell fired off a letter to the CRIMSON urging students not of age to stay out of the armed services...
Harvard and sons strove to atone for Yankee niggardliness. Seniors welcomed freshmen to the Houses, while the Navy took over the Yard; the Freshman Union became a communications school. Upperclassmen, those above the draft-eligible age of 20, heard their country call, and ROTC and the Enlisted Reserve Corps accepted many of them...
...gloom couldn't be put out of mind. Some two weeks before the Princeton game, President Roosevelt, in a Fireside Chat, announced that he would shortly ask Congress to lower the draft age to 18. Several days before that, James Conant called for the "conversion" of Harvard to war-time status. According to his plan, soon to be adopted in modified form, Harvard and the other Ivy schools would cease providing "college" educations altogether, and devote themselves exclusively to training local high school graduates for Army and Navy duty...