Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Radcliffe seniors approved overwhelmingly yesterday a statement of support for draft resistors, which will be read at Commencement Wednesday...
Miss Bishop wrote the statement, which read in part: On our graduation day, we declare our support for those who will oppose the draft as one means of trying to end the war in Vietnam...
After Commencement '68, many Harvard seniors will lose their 2-S student draft deferements, and the war in Vietnam will scatter them across the nation and the world. Fifty years ago, Commencement had just the opposite effect, serving as the first reunion for the Class of 1918--which had already been scattered by the First World...
...gloom couldn't be put out of mind. Some two weeks before the Princeton game, President Roosevelt, in a Fireside Chat, announced that he would shortly ask Congress to lower the draft age to 18. Several days before that, James Conant called for the "conversion" of Harvard to war-time status. According to his plan, soon to be adopted in modified form, Harvard and the other Ivy schools would cease providing "college" educations altogether, and devote themselves exclusively to training local high school graduates for Army and Navy duty...
...assured of a degree. Why not drop out? One could always come back to school, if one lived. Besides, Harvard wasn't Harvard anymore. As soon as undergraduates left, the Army and Navy moved men in. On December 6, General Hershey froze the Enlisted Reserves, and enlistment or the draft were the only alternatives left. A fellow could be picked up at 18 now, so no one--freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior--was going to stay in school much longer anyway, if he were able-bodied...