Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Officials at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences expect that the draft will hit the GSAS hard. Several factors, though, will hopefully keep disruption to a minimum...
Thomas K. Sisson '46, assistant dean of the GSAS, estimates that 40 per cent of the present first-year class is draft-vulnerable. He believes that almost all these people will be called for induction, and that few will fortuitously flunk their physicals...
...mitigating influence may blunt the draft's damage. "We'd been seriously thinking of reducing the size of GSAS anyway," says Sisson. A committee on the "future of the Graduate School" is considering, among other matters, such a reduction...
...meantime, until these returning people take up the slack, the school faces lean times. Sisson places no hope in local draft boards, which, he believes, "have absolutely no more autonomy," and he feels the GSAS must resign itself to a loss of up to one million dollars next year...
Still, Sisson sees Harvard's action essentially as weathering the storm. "I think it is abominable to ask the classes of '67 and '68 to provide two-thirds of this year's draft quota" he says, "but a lot of people have panicked, and we don't intend...