Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...enough under the law if the man himself is opposed to war on religious grounds. He must of course convince the proper authorities of the sincerity of his belief in order to be assigned to nonmilitary service. The present law is wider than the War Draft Act, which expressly required membership in a pacifist sect...
...answer practical questions about the draft, the Student Council is sponsoring an open meeting at 7:30 o'clock tonight in Emerson D at which Professor Livingston Hall and several other legal experts will speak, Council Chairman Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. '41 announced last night...
Marvin urged all students of draft age to attend the meeting where they will receive advice about their rights and responsibilities under the Selective Service...
...objectors should not refuse to register, because then they will never have a chance to express their views. At registration tomorrow objectors will not have to state their case. They can do so if they insist, but it would be a useless formality, since the questionnaire which the local draft board will send them later on will offer their real chance to present their arguments...
...professors who will assist in explaining the meeting and implication of the draft to the citizens of Cambridge include James A. Mc Laughlin, professor of Law, Ralph Beatley '13 Associate professor of Education, Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, George K. Gardiner '12, professor of Law, Samuel H. Cross '12, professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, and Dr. James M. Townsend '17 instructor in Medicine...