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...President of the University of Chicago, outlined a program for American education in this week's issue of the Saturday Evening Post. The article, entitled "Blueprint for American Education," called for modification of existing Reserve programs, payment of reserve officers while in college, and the immediate lowering of the draft age to eighteen, combined with the abolition of all volunteering...
...first step in any such program is to eliminate the ambiguity in the college man's status by lowering the draft age to eighteen and abandoning volunteering. This would make it possible to place all men where they could best be used and to eliminate all students who do not belong in college, Hutchins stated...
Over and above the difficulty of procuring needed materials that are already disappearing from the war-time-market, a delayed, independent '44 class book would have to face the problem of rapidly disintegrating constituency. For should the class dwindle further under the fire of draft boards, the financial prospects of this second Album would have to fade proportionately. Moreover, changes in requirements for degrees, along with the variations produced by innumerable reserve schemes mean even greater divergences in the dates of graduation--and thus make any true distinction between Junior and Senior classes virtually impossible...
Dogged by added work and uncertain tenure, the class of '44 must make a decision in which time is the vital element. For the many Juniors already or soon to be caught before graduation by the draft, the Album will be available in February rather than June. Thus a war-torn class can still emerge with a class book. And a class book, even a joint effort such as this, is far better than none...
Demand for science majors is especially great and some employers are actively interested in hiring these men, regardless of their draft status...