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Russell S. Beecher '64, of the Office for Graduate and Career Plans, will enter the Coast Guard's Officer Candidate School next week. For the past year and a half, he has been Harvard's draft "expert", so expert that he discovered his impending draft notice ahead of time and enlisted in the Coast Guard...
...helps themselves by turning their back on the draft issue. I inspected all the possibilities open to me and choose the branch which suited me best," Beecher said. His training will soon begin in Yorktown...
...Vietnam has caused a quite significant increase in the number of students planning to go to graduate school next year, Beecher said. Judging from questionnaires issued at this year's registration, Beecher predicts that 80-90 per cent of the class of 1966 will apply to Graduate...
...percentage of students planning millitary service immediately after Harvard has dropped from 14 per cent in 1962 to 8 per cent in 1965. Beecher said. This year, Beecher expects a slight rise in enlistments; students who know they do not want to go to graduate school are apt to enlist to avoid being drafted...
...Beecher anticipates a drop in the number of students taking jobs after graduation, and expects an increase in students going into teaching and the Peace Corps...