Word: draft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Based on the estimated draft needs for fiscal 1969, Massachusetts will have a quota of 4000 men, slightly more than 1.6 per cent of the national calls. About 2500 of the 4000 will be either college graduates or first year grad students...
...Harry Marmion of the American Council on Education said that as many as 80 to 90 per cent of graduating seniors may prefer the draft to enlistment...
...Prefer Draft...
Graduate student winners of Harvard Travel Fellowships will not forfeit their awards by going to jail to avoid the draft...
...letter mailed to the winners today the General Scholarship Committee said that it would "reserve funds for a winner who is unable to accept the award in direct consequence of Selective Service Regulations." Both going to jail and volunteering for the draft will be considered direct consequences, according to Peter K. Gunness '57, Secretary to the General Fellowship Committee...