Word: deferments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Selective Service announced last February that it would no longer defer most graduate students, academe responded with alarm. Harvard President Nathan Pusey complained that first-year classes this fall would contain only "the lame, the halt, the blind and the female." The Council of Graduate Schools predicted that most such classes would be slashed in half. Now most graduate school deans concede that their anguish was unwarranted, or at least premature. Fall enrollment will be surprisingly close to normal...
...request of the police they are turned off. Rudd suggests we go back to the sundial and join with 300 demonstrators there, but we know that he couldn't possibly know whether there are 300 demonstrators there and we don't want to leave. He persists and we defer...
...attack on the President's policy, is melting in the heat of success. McCarthy seems more than a little annoyed at Kennedy's haste, and remarks half-whimsically that, "the track is getting a little crowded," while Kennedy supporters quietly insist that the Minnesota Senator will be forced to defer after the two clash in their first primary encounter...
SEVERAL months ago, when McCarthy stepped forward to oppose Johnson and the war, he said that he would be willing to defer to a stronger peace candidate. One has now appeared. It will not be easy for McCarthy, after the euphoria of New Hampshire, to yield the center of the stage. But the ideals that prompted him to enter the race now challenge him to an even harder and lonelier decision: to leave...
...Committee was expected to vote on ROTC credit at a meeting yesterday afternoon, but agreed to defer its decision to early April, pending a review of Yale's ROTC contracts...