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Increased pay, along the lines we recommend, should increase the number of men who enlist under the present physical and mental standards. There is a natural tendency, and a commendable one, for the armed services to want the highest quality personnel they can get; and with higher pay they would be able, and might be tempted, to raise standards of acceptance rather than to admit a larger number of enlistees...
This is not to say that if Vietnam Summer proves to be a rather ineffectual venture, droves of undergraduates will flock to enlist in the "We Won't Go" movement. But they will be faced with what is certain to be a political identity crisis that could serve to sour on the recent radicalization of Harvard...
...Friday, April 6, the U.S. declaration of war on Germany came as the fitting climax to the past months of debate. President Lowell offered the government the use of any University resources. Athletics were temporarily suspended. The class of 1917, about to graduate, began to enlist at an unprecedented rate...
...Summer," and prepare to go to prison. If we do not feel so strongly as to go to jail rather than to war, then we should sign the "Negotiate Now" petition, perhaps work for "Vietnam Summer," but prepare to be drafted. If we feel that the war is right -- enlist...
...keep him from being assigned to a line command. One reason, of course, is that too many potential Negro officers lack the educational requirements for command. In fact, Captain James R. Randall, 34, a Negro psychiatrist for the 4th Infantry Division, though agreeing that many Negro officers and enlisted men complain of discrimination, says: "Many times I have found that the complaint because of race is not really that, but that race has been used by some as a crutch." To the argument that Negroes are too poor for college deferments must be added the fact that they like...