Word: draft
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Many educators have long regarded the ROTC program as an operational blessing and an educational curse. Although it has enabled students to stay in school despite a heavy draft call, its curriculum, they have said, has not fit into the liberal arts program. ROTC courses have been too dull, too detailed. Instead of giving students a chance to flex their minds, they have stressed memorization and routine. At Harvard, for example, this kind of course in the past has taken up four of the seventeen course credits an ROTC man needs to graduate...
...vocational program by the standards of the liberal arts. In normal times, ROTC with credit would have no place at a liberal arts college. Today, the College needs an ROTC, both to fulfill its national responsibility to turn out military officers and to keep enrollment steady under present draft rules...
...think we had better pause for a few minutes and ask Mr. Eliot to draft a resolution...
...Fleet's views also oppose those of Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey, who stated at the end of January that he was against proposals for lengthening the draft requirement for 24 to 36 months...
President Eisenhower yesterday came out strongly against extending draft service from 24 to 30 or 36 months, as recommended by General James A. Van Fleet...