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Questions will be designed to test opinion on issues ranging from price fixing and censorship to draft administration and the University...
...First Draft...
...first draft, October 16, 1940, 4700 students and Faculty members were enrolled under the surveillance of 300 volunteer workers. A much smaller number is expected next week, however, and there will probably be fewer registrars...
Although Bi-igadier General Hershey, Deputy Director of the Selective Service System, recently heralded a drastic broadening of the draft to include many of those formerly deferred because of minor physical defects, Colonel Charron emphasized that the reclassification would not in most cases affect students. "The increased war efforts has increased the need for trained men just as much as for soldiers", he said...
Asserting that the draft boards were still following the procedure outlined by a bulletin of the American Council of Education, issued before war was declared, he cited several recent telegrams from General Hershey that reiterated these instructions. He noted, however, that deferment was granted only by the local board, on the merits of the individual case...