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...Harvard stands ready to cooperate with any program the Army and the navy may establish under the new draft policy. It does not seem wise, however, to announce plans for next year or to change examination schedules until a definite program, which is expected in the near future, materializes," stated Dean Buck yesterday...
...difficult but I wish you would give space to this effort of mine. Thursday's leading article on the draft gives the impression, to the casual reader, that I made definitely certain statements that I actually made tentatively. The article is in the main all right, but the head-lining is regrettable. People are puzzled enough now without throwing big scareheads at them, especially scareheads that give my guesses an importance they by no means merit...
...that yesterday's release alters the situation at all. We have long known that the eighteen year draft would go through, and that when it did, there would be a strong possibility that some men in college would be taken before finishing this term. We have known that the E.R.C. might except to be taken at the end of the term, and that expectation remains in force. Nothing has come through from Washington to indicate that the E.R.C. either will be called before midyears or left in college after that. I feel quite sure that E.R.C. men will finish their...
Traditionally the organ for Freshman interests in Brooks House, the committee has in the past investigated some phase of Freshman activities. This year, however, the probability that the draft will create vacancies in the important P.B.H. position has increased the emphasis on preparing the competitors to take over the direction of many Brooks House activities by mid-years...
...registered for the draft from Cambridge in August and was shortly inducted into the Army at Devens, where he is now assigned to a military police escort guard...