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Each speaker will probably include in his talk information regarding entrance requirements and explanation of the courses of study. Of interest to most is the effect upon one's draft status that enrollment in the schools will have. Also, the specific preparation for government work which some schools offer will probably be explained in detail...
...series. On Monday night, Professor Cecil Frazier of the Business School will discuss the opportunities for graduate work across the Charles. He will be followed on Wednesday by Professor Warren A. Seavey, who will consider the advantages that the Law School can offer to all those who elude the draft long enough to matriculate, and by Dean Evan R. Collins, who will discuss the School of Education in the light of the same problem...
Fighting Youth? A third major postponement is the decision to draft 18- and 19-year-olds for war service. Both the sentimental and the humanitarian instincts of the nation are against sending such boys to the battlefields of World...
...munitions and synthetic rubber, gin will get scarce; so will some whiskeys. But U.S. liquor stocks on the whole add up to perhaps a sober four-year supply. Most seriously threatened U.S. pastime is travel; most seriously threatened U.S. comfort is servants, handymen, and repairmen (because of the draft and war jobs for women); to the extent that it is real "suffering" for the citizen to have to stay at home more and to do his own house and yard work, the citizen will suffer...
...sympathizer with much New Deal legislation, he denounced Roosevelt's third term in one of the iciest phrases of the 1940 campaign: "Up to the time of that message [F.D.R.'s "draft" speech] I have had faith in Mr. Roosevelt. I have so no longer...