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...text of the telegram is as follows: "The Harvard Student Council desires to express the opposition of Harvard students to the Sentate amendment tot he 18-19 draft bill, which prohibits sending men under twenty years old overseas without a year's training.--Thomas Matters, president...
Everyone in Washington knew how General George C. Marshall had spent almost a whole day giving testimony on the bill to draft 18-and 19-year-olds; how Admiral Ernest J. King had cooled his heels for 40 minutes in an empty committee room while a Senate committee dawdled at lunch. A Washington gag had it that WPBoss Donald Nelson had already testified before every committee (there are 80) except those on Indian Affairs and the Disposition of Executive Papers...
Here the stocky, sober Republican from South Dakota paused and looked around the Senate. His colleagues were listening indifferently. Their arguments were fixed, their minds made up: they were going to pass (58-10-5) the bill lowering the draft age to 18-but they were also going to pass (39-to-31) Democrat W. Lee O'Daniel's amendment that 18- and 19-year-olds must have a year's training before going to battlefronts abroad...
...tough, ironic case involving themselves. For the first time since the early '20s they had achieved the blissful condition of finding a job for every graduate. At the same time they faced the fact that they might soon have to go out of business. Harder hit by the draft than any other schools, the law schools were down to a corporal's guard of students; some had only a sixth of their pre-war enrollment. It looked as if law schools would be the first U.S. educational casualty of the war. Typical cases...
With the new 18-19 draft, students at Harvard College face a very difficult problem in their school work, Gordon W. Allport, associate professor of Psychology said, since the uncertainty of their immediate future makes it difficult for them to concentrate on the present...