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...State Departmen and the Selective Service Headquarters both agree that a volunteer may get draft deferment, but men under 21 must have written permission from their parents. Applications are taken at the Field Service Headquarters, 8 Newbury Street, Boston, and if the paper work is done early, the volunteer may leave at the end of the school year...
Although it has been previously announced that Don McNichol, last year's pile-driving, full back, was definitely out for the coming season, he expressed doubt last night as to whether that would be the case. "I won't know definitely until June," he said. Barring call to the draft, the red-headed product of Finishing N. Y., will try to graduate in September. However, there are scholastic difficulties to be overcome...
Started by Dorothy Thompson in December to help meet a 30 per cent shortage to farm workers caused by the draft and by the higher wages being offered in defense industries the program has been approved here by several members of the Faculty, among whom is Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government. The Corps hopes to enroll at least 2,000 students from the colleges of New England, New York, and Pennsylvania...
...Draft boards through the country will meet today to assign serial numbers to men who registered on February 15 and 16. The more than 400 University students who registered in Memorial Hall and Brooks House can learn their serial numbers from their local draft boards before the end of the week...
...national lottery is held in Washington, they can get an approximate idea of the order in which they will be called. Under present regulation, the new order numbers obtained as a result of the lottery will be placed at the bottom of the list or previous registrants. The local draft boards have not as yet received instructions as to how to call the new registrants for possible military service...