Word: draft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CRISIS is not just the draft for the war in Vietnam, though that is the most immediate symbol of it for those of us who "have it so good." The crisis is finding a way to live. It is a crisis faced by Harvard seniors, and by high school seniors in a ghetto who can't go to college. Do I fight for my country? Do I work for it? Do I ignore it? Do I try to change it? Do I work against it? Do I proceed alone, or share with others, and how many others? Will ever stop...
...choosing. If at all, ill effects would seem most likely to stem from the disappointment and chagrin faculty members might feel when impressionable, idealistic young Americans within their sphere of influence are observed to throw away their citizenship and ruin their lives by fleeing the country to avoid the draft. Harvard suffered some very bad national publicity--completely unwarranted and undeserved in my judgment--a few months ago when it was made to appear that a majority of Harvard men would take the draft laws into their own hands. Equally disturbing must be the knowledge that there are brilliant young...
...speaker is President Johnson, sounding the keynote address for Greetings, an anti-Establishment comedy of draft-age youth. In search of form, the movie pretends to cover the adventures of three men marking time before they get their "Greetings" from the draft board. In fact, the flip sketches never cohere into a whole picture; Greetings' vitality and weakness are both due to its inability to concentrate on any subject for more than a moment...
Fourth, the university should continue to explore, as it has during the past few months, the possibility of joining with other universities and other large employers in the Boston area to draft a joint agreement that would insure that contractors and trade unions serving those institutions have an affirmative policy toward the hiring of blacks...
...clear impression that the SFAC, which had given no previous collective consideration to student attendance at Faculty Meeting, was under an implicit injunction from the Faculty debate of January 14th to sumbit a draft resolution to this week's meeting. It was our further impression that the Faculty's injunction to the SFAC precluded our proposing the creation of yet another study committee since the SFAC itself had been charged with the issue. Hence our effort in SFAC's two-hour meeting of the 16th--one of our most constructive and harmonious sessions to date, and the last...