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...smelled the smoke of the world afire. They marched, to the rouse and stir of quickstep-music, with their fresh-faced sons, their pretty, milk-fed daughters, high-kneeing drum majorettes in boots and shorts and shakos. In Army camps all over the country were other thousands of their draft-age sons, marched and maneuvered with a deadlier purpose...
Surprised officials at University Hall announced yesterday that the Draft has had no effect at all on the House rooming situation. Prophetic Housemasters had imagined swarms of students coming back and finding that their roomates had been drafted over the summer, because that is exactly what happened...
...large number of Yardlings in College this year is explained by the increased quota which College officials have placed upon entering Freshmen in an attempt to maintain the student body at nearly normal levels despite the draft and other inroads which national defense has made upon men of college...
...filling the right inside position, Hank Murphy expects a draft call in the near future. Andy McCook is ineligible and Chick Lowe is still mending a broken...
...graduation and draft-depleted soccer team greated Jim McDonald yesterday afternoon as he began his first season as Varsity coach...