Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student deferments. The inequity of deferring those whose family background and financial status have led to their college attendance has been pointed out by groups as disparate as U.S. Senators and black militants. The result of these deferments is historically interesting: upper and middle-class males have managed to avoid military service altogether (until recently), while the lower classes provided almost all the regular soldiers. By-passing students is, of course, said to be in the national interest, but many contemporary critics have viewed the procedure primarily as a very effective means of forestalling the potentially unified criticism...
...Will Make a "determined effort to avoid military service" per cent Dudley 83 Adams 69 Lowell 62 Dunster 56 Leverett 53 Winthrop 53 Kirkland 51 Eliot...
...Will go to jail in order to avoid induction per cent Dudley 41 Eliot 20 Adams 15 Leverett 9 Dunster 8 Kirkland 6 Lowell 4 Winthrop...
...draft card burning, and draft resistance as a legitimate form of anti-war protest, the CRIMSON poll found 22 per cent of the Harvard students would resist the draft by either leaving the country or going to jail if such an act were necessary in order to avoid induction...
...capacity next year, the overwhelming majority disapprove of present U.S. policy in Vietnam and some of them even say that they will refuse to follow orders to fight in Vietnam. What this proves is that there are a number of students who are joining the military in order to avoid being sent to Vietnam. Crazy as this may sound, there is some logic to the madness. If one enlists, joins the Reserves, or enters some kind of officer training, there is a better chance of choosing the kind of job and part of the world to which one will...