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...behalf of the 374 students who signed the petition against the May amendment to the 18 and 19-Year Old Draft Bill. I congratulate the Student Council for its telegram to Congressman May expressing opposition to this amendment. The response I met while circulating the petition indicates that in this step they truly represent the opinion of the student body. It is gratifying to a new Freshman to find Harvard has a student government capable of such prompt action. With the College so squarely behind the war effort, it seems that expressions of this kind should continue. Chandler Davis...
...Events in Washington indicate House will accept Senator O'Daniel's rider to the 18-19 old draft bill. This rider would prohibit the sending abroad of soldiers under 20 without a year's training. . . . Will you join thirty Eastern colleges in sending telegrams and petitions to Chairman May, and to the Congressmen from your state, asserting that American youth is willing to serve the Army unconditionally and does not want to be tied to Congress' apron strings? We earnestly feel that action by you with in the next 36 hours will be a direct contribution to victory...
...Student Council was speaking not only for the students of Harvard, but for students and young people all over the country, when it telegraphed Congressman May last night, opposing the O'Daniel amendment to the 18-19 year draft bill. This amendment would prevent men under 20 from being sent overseas until they have had a year of training, and it is only the latest in a series of obstructionist "political" moves by vote-grabbing legislators...
...opposition tot he extension for the draft beyond one year, in its unwillingness to allow any draftees to be sent overseas, even in its reluctance over the original draft bill, Congress has consistently set political opportunism against military necessity. While claiming to speak for its constituents, it has actually been left at the post again and again by an awakened public opinion. It only remains for that public opinion to make itself audible--even to Congressmen...
Five hundred presidents and deans met at Philadelphia last week to discuss the fate of educational institutions if the draft age is lowered and all able bodies students of college age are taken by the armed forces. The corps would allow--the military to supervise wartime education and would fully mobilize college facilities, according toe the report of the committee headed by Edmund E. Day, president of Cornell University...