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Modifications in the draft administration have dicated the elimination of cumulative grades, used as the basis for course credit given during the war to draftees inducted before final examinations. Mid-terms grades, dropped because they were reported within two weeks of cumulative, have been restored for all students, who are not selected by University Hall's action except that hour exams can how be given at the discretion of instructors instead of at the behest of the deans...
...Score. In Goose Creek, Tex., Draft Board Chairman Frank Read complained that Veteran Albert Hill, inducted in April, 1942, had finally caught up with him, busted in his false teeth...
...already laying plans to fit the younger brothers into the dynastic pattern. Benson Ford, now 26, has just been released from the Army, will probably be settled down in labor relations. Breezy, talkative, he liked formal education even less than Henry, spent only a year at Princeton. After his draft board rejected him (he is virtually blind in one eye), he managed to enlist anyway, ended up as a lieutenant. .Billy, 20, was in the Navy's V-5 program, likes to tinker with motors more than the other boys, plans to attend Yale before he joins up with...
Fortunately for most of them, and tragically for a few, American college students, even those who had signed the Oxford Pledge, emptied the temples of the higher learning after Pearl Harbor, and especially after the 18-year-old draft law was passed in the autumn of 1942. Enrollment plunged to a low of 671 in the College...
...details as Manhattan streets on a rainy night, Miss Bennett's slatternly Greenwich Village apartment with its cigaret butts in a sink full of dirty dishes, Robinson's gloomy Brooklyn apartment where the sound of the neighbors' radio seeps up through the floor like a cold draft. But the chill look of reality in the sets only emphasizes the two-dimensional unreality of the characters who walk through them...