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Although in nine cases out of ten they are deferred by their local draft boards, students enrolling in the Business School's 12-month Industries course do not automatically escape the provisions of the Selective Service...
Dean Donham said yesterday that each case is left up to the individual draft board, and that about 90 percent of the boards will permit the students to go through with the course and into a position as a junior executive, but he added that it is by no means a sure thing...
These special degrees will be given only to members of the Senior class of the School who are in good standing at the time they withdraw because of enlistment or the draft. They must also pass satisfactorily the regular mid-year examinations or special examinations given in substitution...
Through a process of experimentation over the sixteen months that have gone by since the country first went on a draft basis, Washington has come closer and closer to a sensible solution to the college degree problem. For the first year, Seniors were exempted from the draft, and the colleges remained relatively untapped by the services of Uncle Sam. As Army and Navy expansion programs began to hop into the less conservative millions, the provision exempting Seniors was struck out of the Draft Bill, and the age limit was lowered to twenty. With a sizable percentage of college...
...already signed up for V-7, any of the ROTC's, or have not already made satisfactory plans concerning commissions and degrees can be interviewed by an officer of the Marince Corps at University 20, during the next two days. But they will not find it any draft-dodging device or soft war berth. The Marines may want a man with a sheepskin, but they want to train him to lead platoons in combat. Their officers are now serving from Greenland to the Philippines and from Alaska to the tropics. Part of the U.S. Navy, the Marine Corps...