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Today, however, the squad comes up against an aggregation that plays the same type of football as Harvard and that has had its personnel hit just as hard by graduation and the draft. The squad will have a fair opportunity to show its stuff, and, on the basis of what it shows, one will be able to tell what kind of success the Crimson will have during the rest of the campaign...
...definite advice except to stay in college and remain calm can be given to undergraduates between the ages of 17 and 20 until Congress decides the terms of the new draft law, Elliot Perkins '23, director of the War Service Information Bureau, stated yesterday...
...Presidential threat to draft 18 and 19-year-olds was taken quite coolly by the childish Lampoon staff, according to the usual unreliable sources from the Bow Corner dive. "Few of our significant members are over 17," Oliver E. Allen '43 (social), unclassified (academic), president, announced last night at a poorly attended press conference...
...Selected younger candidates will be added to Lampy's large-scale draft-dodging scheme," Eric Larrabee '43, secretary, added. "Partiality to 4-F's is already the guiding rule in choosing members of this immature joke-sheet." Speedball O'Shaughnessy of De Wolfe Street, long the official bootblack for the Ibis-nest adolescents, is being groomed for the presidency, according to a current rumor, but this was vigorously denied by Michael J. Sullivan...
...will not solve the puzzle without new legislation from Congress. The occasional "on-the-job" freezing of labor already attempted is purely "jawbone" regulation, much like Leon Henderson's requests for voluntary price control before Congress gave him legal powers. Outright conscription of labor and 'a 'teen-age draft are impossible under existing statutes. These measures, which the President said "may be necessary," will require renewed Congressional deliberation. Even with strong Presidential leadership, Congress dallied with price-control. Without such leadership, they may waste more precious weeks bandying charges of "dictatorship" during labor draft debates...