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Registration of every member of Harvard College born between July 1 and August 31, 1924, will take place beginning tomorrow at the offices of Draft Board 47 in the basement of Phillips Brooks House. Registration of this group must be completed in a week...
...Draft All Men, Says Hisaw...
...enlistments were closed by Presidential order colleges were left out of the immediate plans. This unprecedented step toward war time efficiency settled some of Washington's mot pressing problems, but the plan is not yet complete. College that have been limping along because of deferments, reserve corps, and lenient draft bills, find themselves suddenly hamstrung by the disappearance of the former official policy and the lack of a new one to take its place. With all men from 18 to 38 and from 1-A to 4-F subject to the New Manpower Commission, colleges must either be abandoned...
Meanwhile colleges and college students are left, almost without plans at the mercy of a new juggernaut draft bill. The ERC is now closed and its promised reopening for those in special training may very well result in the delay, the arguments, and the local draft board whims that characterized the previous inadequate Selective Service system. Meanwhile draft boards are hot on the trail of 'teen-agers who may be turned into infantry privates instead of valuable technicians because of this gap in the planning...
Washington announce plan to draft eighteen-year-olds...