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...Puritans Draft Ringers...
Yale's solution of the "draft degree" problem, like Princeton's is less rigorous and more flexible than the policy now in operation here at Harvard. Neither of the other members of the Big Three require completion of course requirements, although both demand departmental exams...
...most numerous group of Professor Casner's consultants are those threatened by the draft. To these he explains the procedure of filling out questionaires, the possibility of deferment of postponement, and the advantages of enlistment over induction for students with few qualifications for officers training or advancement in the army...
Rated No. 1 Catholic publication through its influence on teachers and clergymen, the Jesuit weekly America, edited by 52-year-old Francis Xavier Talbot, S.J. opposed the war and everything connected with it, including the draft. The Catholic World, a Paulist monthly edited by 64-year-old America-Firster Father James M. Gillis, is much more isolationist than America, though like almost every other isolationist Catholic publication it makes a distinction between national defense and intervention in World...
Henry Shreve did not claim the $100,000, but he started building the boat. Amid sensational rumors and the hoots of river loafers, he laid the keel at Wheeling. "Talk of this hull never died. . . . The vessel defied every principle of shipbuilding." It "was exceedingly shallow of draft, but reared aloft with two decks, one above the other...