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Students who refused to register for the draft drew his rebuke, also the warning that Union would not become "a haven for draft dodgers." No admirer of Communism (he said Union could not be made "the guinea pig for some future Soviet"), he admires the Russian people enough to be vice president of Russian War Relief. Through his efforts, Union's board last year elected a Negro minister to membership, first major U.S. seminary...
...selected newsmen get a year at Harvard University, at full pay, to study anything they wish except journalism (66 have won Fellowships since they were inaugurated in 1938). Of the past year's 16 Fellows, seven had dropped out before the school year's end -one was drafted, two joined OWI, four were recalled to their jobs because of manpower shortages. Last week, after pondering whether to suspend for the duration, Harvard decided: Nieman Fellowships will be maintained on a restricted basis. Only newspapermen who are 1) reasonably draft-proof and who 2) want to bone...
...until the years of World War I that Edsel first learned what it was going to mean to live within the Ford legend. Deeply opposed to war, Henry insisted that Edsel be deferred from the draft as one of the company's key men. Edsel was condemned as a "slacker" and "coward." Silently, Edsel shouldered his share of managing the company, knowing that the bitter storm was puffed up by Republican politicians. The deferment was justified. But this was Edsel's first experience in the storms which swirled about his father. The next williwaw came in 1919, when...
...anyone talking to him. He showed he had a mind of his own by turning Catholic to marry, is now a lieutenant in the Navy. Benson Ford, 23, alone of the grandchildren, has his grandfather's keen blue eyes and much of his tremendous energy. Rejected in the draft (he is almost blind in one eye) he got special War Department permission to enlist, is now in officers' training school. Both he and Henry II are directors in the company. The youngest son, William Clay Ford, just 18, is a Naval air cadet...
...respectable, U.S. correspondence teaching is now 70 years old. The pioneer in 1873 was Boston's Society to Encourage Studies at Home. The oldest existing institutions were founded in the early 1890s: the International Correspondence Schools and the University of Chicago's Home-Study Department. Today the draft has decimated the younger enrollment. But vocational subjects have gained in appeal and many older people are retooling by mail. Estimated total enrollment: 900,000, of which university extension courses account...