Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ceremony continued, rising in intensity. I tried to think of minor consolations--I wouldn't have to take junior generals at college; all my worries about studying and the draft would be over. But after everyone
...course, this is not true of a good number of people at Harvard--people who have read and thought and listened, and have then acted, by doing such things as draft counseling or resistance, developing new courses or seminars, or in some cases by actively working for McCarthy. But it is true of a good many others who see it as fashionable to be "radical," to criticize, to yell, to hiss, without thinking about what they are doing. Perhaps these are the people who are unwilling to make the complete break, and who will, for the most part, eventually "sell...
...laymen can separate things so neatly in their own minds. The elements of turmoil blend into an ill-defined whole. But the three main tributaries that converge to make the law-and-order issue so powerful are: 1) the revolt of youth, whether against the war, the draft or the social system as a whole; 2) Negro militance and ghetto rioting; and 3) the individual's intense personal fear of criminal attack...
True, the present constitution of the Radcliffe Union of Students does not deal with student representation on the Council even though students over-whelmingly approved the idea when a first draft of the constitution was submitted to them for a vote last year. This clause was finally dropped by the student officers in order to get the constitution approved at all and a verbal agreement was substituted under which students would be invited "from time to time...
Neither the committee's three faculty members nor two deans were present at yesterday's meeting, which had been postponed from Wednesday because of the Jewish holiday. But a quorum of student members attended and after a short discussion voted unanimously to draft the letter to Dean Watson...