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...with the conduct of the war up till now. This is as broad as it is deep-not so much the lack of alert at Pearl Harbor or the bitterness of Bataan, or even the fire-gutted Normandie, as the flood of officially inspired uncertainty on production, on the draft, on rubber, on gas rationing, on the performance of U.S. planes; as the spectacle of bickering between Army & Navy; as production tie-ups due to inadequate Government planning; as manpower wastage due to lack of Government policy; as delay in inflation control. (Wrote James Loeb Jr., secretary of the Union...
Because the draft has made wholesale invasions on Dick Harlow's coaching staff, and because the number of Varsity substitutes playing on the Junior Varsity squad has seriously handicapped the Crimson mentor, it was decided to eliminate the Jayvees entirely...
With the release of this long-awaited official communique, the true status of all ERC men, deferred draft-agers, and eighteen-and nineteen year-olds, will be clearly defined...
...result of Secretary of War Stimson's announcement a month age, the presumption now is that all enlistees in the Military Reserve may expect to be inducted into the regular Army at the end of the scholiast term in which they attain their draft age. Exception may be made, however, in the case of a very few pre-med, pre-dental, and electronics concentrators. "I am willing to guess," said Perkins, "with the situation as vague as it is, that we will have a clear statement from the War Department within the next two or three weeks...
...With the draft threatening to decimate undergraduate ranks in every department of the University, Business School Inmates have decided to "hide their light under a bushel" by assiduously secreting themselves behind their text books during all former one-day holidays this season...