Word: eighteen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many members of Harvard College whose academic course is far from finished. To be sure, there is nothing unique in what is happening here in Cambridge. Throughout the nation our college empty so that our armies may grow in strength. Throughout the nation able-bodies young men of eighteen and nineteen years of age are being called to join the armed forces already fighting on many fronts and on many seas. For more than a year now every day has witnessed an increasing impact of the war on academic life. You have watched a college devoted to the arts...
Seven kitchens are responsible for feeding all Harvard. They range in size from the small, separate Adams and Dunster kitchens which feed a thousand undergraduates jointly, to the so-called College group which feeds the other five Houses for a total of 1800 mouths. Eighteen hundred Naval Officers are fed in the Union and in the new mess hall across the river, while the Medical School and Business School feed 1100 more...
Students who became eighteen during September and October will register during the week of December 18. The offices of the draft board will be open daily from 9 until 5 o'clock...
Washington announce plan to draft eighteen-year-olds...
...Resolved: That the drafting of eighteen and nineteen year old men to defend out democratic heritage will drastically curtall higher education. This sacrifice for the defense of democratic education itself is obviously necessary and right...