Word: enlistment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dunster House Committee thinks that if "we're able to come up with a concrete proposal of names and places before vacation that we'll be able to generate enough student support to enlist the aid of the proper officials," Kaplan said...
...were willing to accept the luck of the draw. While a few talked of flight to Canada and some of seeking exemptions on physical or psychological grounds, most searched for alternatives to the draft. A few planned to seek conscientious-objector status; some expected to enlist in a reserve or National Guard unit. Others, including David Eisenhower, are considering going into teaching, which can bring a draft deferment, to postpone their service until the war is over. A few, whose birthdays fall in the uncertain middle third, are even considering playing a numbers game with their futures. They feel that...
Nevertheless, a group of about a dozen AROTC student leaders will proceed in their plans to send letters to under-graduates and first-year graduate students to enlist their support for the continuation of the program, due to end next June...
...others were not so happy. One- a number 20- left last night for New York to enlist in the reserves...
...Vellucci drove us back to the Square, later that night, we asked him if he realized that the radicals were attacking Harvard and M.I.T. for many of the same reasons that he was, and asked why he didn't try to enlist their support...