Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many are now substituting draft-exempt teaching for graduate study in education. Since 1967, the number going directly into teaching has risen from 24 to 138. Graduate study in education has declined from 35 to 20 in that same period...
...change in draft laws hit us like a ton of bricks. Men panicked," he said. "In that year over 17 per cent made plans to enter into military service...
Changes in draft regulations in 1968 eliminated the previously automatic graduate school deferments, limiting draft exemption to students in medical school, theological school, and certain areas of graduate study in science...
Less than 10 per cent of the Class of 1969, however, planned to enter directly into the military. "By 1969, people felt less distorted in their plans about the draft," Fox said...
Before the change in draft regulations, about 30 per cent of Harvard College graduates planned to enter non-professional graduate school: Since then, the number has dropped to 10 per cent...