Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TALKING with my classmates on the eve of their graduation has no evoked a particularly festive response. Some are down at the mouth because of the draft; other are simply t a loss as to what to do with themselves. One would imagine that after fourarduous years of travaille the end of the academic moratorium would be greeted with a sense of rejoicing, relief, and eve 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, frustration, 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...
These liberals are either apartisan or activists deeply comitted to the electoral process. The McCarthy campaign, founded on student concern with the draft and the war, served to politicize the apartisan groups and gain nearly complete support from the usually factionalized activist group...
...chain of hopeless events will leave this mass of politicized draft-age students ripe for radicalization. The frustration of hard work and crushed hopes will most likely provide the alienating experience necessary to create new radical converts...
...Harvard's enthusiasm for ROTC had died down to more modern levels. Since participation in ROTC made undergraduates draft-exempt, many took refuge in the program while expending as little effort as possible. Two Harvard students received dishonorable discharges in an incident that foreshadowed Colonel Pell's dismissal of four ROTC graduates last spring...