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...intervening days, an anti-war group called the Student Partisan Alliance (SPA) had distributed a statement on the draft advocating that anti-war activists join the armed forces and then encourage desertion, destroy weaponry, divulge classified information--and even "eliminate officers and non-coms in combat...
...draft came to Harvard in 1951, regularly making the front page of The Crimson. The senior class escaped largely unscathed--though six of its members would be killed in the Korean War--and the draft burden would fall on future classes...
...Class of 1951 was the first class since the war to be mostly free of veterans and the last class before the next war to be mostly free of the draft...
...While administrators assessed how General Education fit into the College's educational objectives, talk of mobilization and the draft was everywhere on campus. Students lobbied successfully for the expansion of Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs...
...when the College slightly expanded its own admissions in 1947, anticipating the loss of students to the draft, the losses did not come until the Class...