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Most psychiatrists now practice in big cities (where some of them command fabulous fees), asylums, or in prisons (where inmates call them "bug doctors"). Last week a lot of them were expanding their practice to include the draft...
...Charles Spreyer '42, whose draft number was called early last fall, is more than likely out of college football for next year, it was revealed yesterday...
...undergraduates restless, uncertain whether they should continue in college. Almost to a man, the college presidents were for postponing students' military training until after their graduation. A Harvard spokesman, President James B. Conant's assistant, John Russell, complained that while defense factory hands were exempted from the draft, chemists-in-training, equally vital to defense, were not. Because they feared being called unpatriotic, delegates eventually adopted a compromise resolution: that Congress should amend the Selective Service Act to let a conscripted collegian finish his current academic year before starting service...
...government coordinating agency with power to draft idle machine tools and put them to work on defense material and authority to curtail non-military production in commercial plants and turn the increased capacity to the defense effort...
Other Departments, especially larger ones with more men writing theses, should not find it hard to make up such groups and try this system. From the time a student gets his first inkling of his subject, to the moment when he puts pen to paper for the first draft, this wider contact with like-minded men can do a lot to build a stronger foundation for the thesis, the work that represents the culmination of the tutorial system...