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Besides being a housemaster, Dr. Perkins has been head of the War Service Bureau since 1943, an essential industry for those Harvard men with invitations from their draft boards. As a lecturer in English history, he is well known to those who have taken History 42a. Dr. Perkins spent a number of years in England and did research there from 1931 to 1934. He received his doctor's degree at Harvard...
...madding crowd." To this end, he has, as he puts it, a retreat in the salt marshes, away from all such marks of civilization as the telephone. Thus refreshed, he is always ready to come forth and wield a salty tongue or tell a salty story about roommates, draft boards, or English kings...
Across the land, it was the same. Four San Antonio draft boards, with a May quota of 36, produced nine men. Instead of 79, Denver found four. Los Angeles, with a quota of 793, would deliver only 170; the whole state of California would draft only 300 instead...
However bad the situation in May, it would be far worse in June. With rare exceptions, selective service boards had relied heavily upon teen-agers to fill their quotas. By exempting this class from the "mamma's boy" draft, the House (with unwilling Senate concurrence) had made it an almost draftless draft. The President's order that the boards resume drafting single men between 25 and 30 would produce only about 15,000 eligibles...
Enlistments, too, were sure to drop. In the past year, 90% had been teen-agers who signed up to beat the draft and get a better deal (choice of branch and choice of theater in which to serve). With the immunity granted them by the amended law, the boys' incentive to volunteer was gone. So, in effect, was the draft. By year's end, the Army estimated, it would be losing 55,000 men a month by discharge, receiving only 25,000 replacements...