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Young men who undertake this work will not be assured any preferential treatment in the draft though an attempt may be made to obtain deferment in exceptional cases...
...Food Service. He was a quiet fellow, interested in music and social anthropology, and in his political views inclining towards what his friends considered a somewhat naive utopianism. As a natural consequence he was a pacifist, and his beliefs made it impossible for him even to register for the draft. His refusal has earned him a sentence which, even under the present law, must be called severe...
Believing that war is "the inevitable reward for bad actions in a moral universe," Hall, a scholarship and Group II student, refused to register for the draft on February 16 because of his conviction that "it was set up avowedly to facilitate the formation of an armed force trained for the infliction of human suffering...
...Government and Economics dwindling away before its eyes, with the possibility of a decreasing income, and with the danger that young teaching recruits will be recruited by a higher authority, the Dean's Office is apprehensive that there will not be enough tutors to go around. Granting that the draft will gradually reduce the annual 334,000 potential teacher supply, such a great total should supply sufficient qualified instructors. Already the Economics department has received more applications for teaching jobs than it can fill. New men, however, are not the whole answer to the problem. Most of the older members...
...long-awaited news came: thousands of U.S. men now in draft-deferred classifications may find themselves in the Army before the next cold weather. In Washington last week Colonel Carlton S. Dargusch, Deputy Selective Service Director, said: "The manpower situation will be acute by fall. There are certain things in prospect, and we think the people are entitled to know about it now." Things in prospect...