Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moment the cutbacks are not serious for Harvard, Fox said, explaining that the scarcity of graduate draft deferments has already limited the number of students in the Fulbright program. "But when the draft situation clears," he said, "the Fulbrights won't be back...
Because the Fulbright awards are not announced until May, however, as many as half of the Harvard winners, having made other plans or accepted rival awards, annually turn them down. Last year the severity of the new draft laws further cut into the number of Harvard students accepting Fulbrights...
...under our present Administration. But what was good for most in the '60s is not good enough for all in the '70s. I pledge myself here and now not only to a new day but to the Democratic Decade that will see an end to violence, the draft, ghettos, poverty, inadequate educational and health services, inflation, pollution, corruption and the dismaying concentration of power in the White House that began with a Republican President...
David's politics pretty much coincide with Nixon's, although David initially disagreed when the candidate suggested eventually abolishing the draft in favor of a volunteer army. "I interpreted that at first to be the end of everybody being equally responsible for the country's welfare," says David. "I mean, you hear a lot of guys talking about how they are being excluded from the political process and on the other hand saying that it is in the national interest, as they have defined it, for them not to be drafted...
...following is a draft of the oration delivered in Sanders Theatre on Class Day, June 12, 1968. Henry Norr, Class Orator, made his remarks immediately preceding a speech by Mrs. Coretta Scott King, whom the Class of 1968 invited to speak in replacement of her husband...