Word: draft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TALKING with my classmates on the eve of their graduation has not evoked a particularly festive response. Some are down at the mouth because of the draft; others are simply at a loss as to what to do with themselves. One would imagine that after four arduous years of travaille the end of the academic moratorium would be greeted with a sense of rejoicing, relief, and ven liberation. Instead, I have become increasingly impressed with a muggy mood of despondence which hovers over this year's celebrations like a lazy mosquito: annoying, menacing, frustrating, and depressing...
What will you remember about your senior year at Harvard? The gloom of December when the war got worse, when draft calls increased, when your thesis tumbled from your frostbitten fingers like a heavy stone, and the future looked as dead as the icy eyes on a frozen pigeon which lay in the trash, claws outstretched, stiff, scratching the clouds--too cold to even interest the maggots...
Regarding anti-war activities, Harvard will still be where the action is this summer. The Harvard Draft Project, began the pring to advise students on ways of fulfilling (or avoiding) their military obligations, will offer counseling services afternoons on the steps of Memorial Church for the next two months...
Tentatively, Engelhardt envisions discussion groups on different social problems, a film series dealing with the peace movement and civil rights, and a quick course on draft counseling itself. The Project will also work closely with the Summer school Forum, a student group sponsoring controversial speakers on campus...
...many clergymen are delighted with the opportunity to use their houses of worship in what they feel is an openly defiant way of supporting dissent. Roman Catholic Monsignor George W. Casey of St. Brigid's Church in Boston says that he finds some comfort in the fact that draft resisters-most of them nonreligious-have sought the church "as a place of confrontation. Church has been fading from the sight of young America. We hear the word 'irrelevant' so often it makes us wince. It is good, in a strange way, to know that in the minds...