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Moving to forestall a threatened shortage of doctors, the Army last week extended draft deferment and a chance for commissions to men in their first and second year of medical school and pre-med students who have been accepted by a reputable graduate school...
Aside from men who held commissions, deferment for medical students has been largely a matter of individual discretion on the part of local draft boards. Board 47 in Cambridge, according to officials there, has usually deferred any men taking medical training, but other boards have been free to draft as they wished...
Registration for the draft in accordance with President Roosevelt's recent proclamation brought 400 members of the University and 900 others to the desks at Memorial Hall yesterday and Sunday...
...Thirty-five per cent of all men now registering for the draft will be rejected because of physical disabilities," Dr. Arlie V. Bock '15, Oliver Professor of Hygiene, predicted yesterday. Dr. Bock asserted that the stringent draft physical restrictions now in effect will probably be relaxed to meet the President's recent call for a vastly enlarged army...
...scholarship and Group II student, Hall came to Harvard after studying for a time at the City College of New York. As a conscientious objector, he regarded registering as supporting the draft and war, to which he is morally opposed. His conviction is based on a belief in the power of religious faith over military force...