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Harvard will be emptier by 1400 men soon after February 1, the College announced yesterday after tabulating answers to the study card poll taken early in December. Fluctuating government releases and uncertainty of draft operation make a definite count impossible, but officials are sure that at least 1000 of the 3,300 now in Cambridge will fail to answer the second semester school-bell...
Throughout the fall students have been dropping out at an average rate of about 30 a week to join the armed forces, and the 18-19 draft and Enlisted Reserve call are the new factors which will cause the big drain next month. College will have almost twice as many Freshmen and Sophomores as Juniors and Seniors after the Great Exodus...
Replies to the confidential questionnaire which was filled out by 3307 students were analysed, and with them as a guide the entire student body was broken down into about 100 categories according to reserve groups, fields of concentration, and draft status. On the basis of all available information, officials then decided whether or not each group would be here after February...
...psychopath with normal intelligence anxious to get into the Army may, in his few minutes with a psychiatrist at the induction center, fool him completely. But draft-board members in a small community may know that he is a heavy drinker, or has attacked girls, or never keeps a job, or is a thief. In the Army such a man will sometimes win a medal through sheer love of action. More often he is the man who is A.W.O.L. With his quick suggestibility he spreads rumors. He may even sell out to the enemy...
...manic depressive between attacks of depression or elation may fool an Army psychiatrist on a quick test. But a draft board member who remembers how George sometimes got so blue that he never went out, sometimes got so high that he ran himself and his relatives into debt on a buying spree, can save the Army & Navy lot of trouble by insisting that George be kept at home...