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...result of the recent questionnaire on all upperclass study cards, and a study of the ages of undergraduates, University officials have estimated that there will be a drop of about 150 to 175 in next year's College enrollment because of the draft...
...spite of the set of questions on the study cards, however, exact figures about the result of the draft on the College are still not available...
...noticeable that the poll included only those who would be affected by the present draft law and not by any new law which might go into effect in the near future. The poll was used as a measuring rod to help University officials estimate the result of the draft on the College...
Because the Government is considering a plan to draft seaworthy vessels out of intercoastal trade to meet the growing shortage in ocean shipping, the railroads last week were in a fair way to get back most of the freight they lost to the Panama Canal. But the carriers-already pressed for freight cars by the defense boom-had good cause to be frightened as well as pleased...
There has probably never been a literary reincarnation like this. To U.S. men of draft age, Frank Merriwell is a vague synonym for a ninth-inning home run or a last-minute touchdown. But to an older generation, he was as vividly real a person as Superman or Tarzan is to youngsters today. Gilbert Patten, under the pseudonym of "Burt L. Standish," wrote the first Merriwell book in 1896, kept on writing at the rate of 20,000 or more words a week for nearly 20 years. Insatiably, week after week, legions of boys gobbled him up between paper covers...