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...York draft board last week protested "against Government officials allowing continuation of strikes and sabotage in industry while we induct men into service to give their all, perhaps their lives, at Army pay." A Georgia draft board had had the same indignant thought. Although there was a period of halfway quiet on the labor front, the public's wrath over labor disputes did not abate. How could people know that there might not be more of the same still coming? When was the Government going to do something about...
Army officials have long favored a lower draft age, suggesting 18 to 22 as the proper training period. They have argued that a man is in his prime physical condition at that time, he is more amenable to rigorous discipline, and he is psychologically fit for army life...
...majority of this year's Sophomores will be 21 in 1942, and of this year's Freshmen in 1943. Thus the draft is certain to have a drastic effect on Harvard enrollment even if the age is not brought down...
Official concern at Harvard over the situation was recently demonstrated in the questionnaire which was added to study cards for the first time this year. There questions were made out before the plan for reducing draft age was officially suggested, but the information received on the cards is of such nature that further general questioning of students will probably not be necessary...
Figures are not yet obtainable as to the number of Harvard students who will be rejected from the draft because of physical defects, since no men have actually been called as yet. If the national average 20% of the select as rejected is in effect here, 77.3% of all Harvard undergraduates would still be subject to service...