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...Signed the final version of the draft amendment, subjecting all U.S. males from the ages of 20 to 44 inclusive to military service, selectively; and registering all between ages...
...House & Senate passed, and the President received for signature, a national draft act registering every man in the U.S. from age 18 to 65, making available to the Army every able-bodied man from...
Nonetheless, University of Cincinnati's President Raymond Walters, semiofficial U.S. campus nose-counter, reported last fortnight that the draft and defense jobs had cut enrollment in 669 leading colleges an average of 9.16% this fall. Stirred by this statistic and the U.S. entry into the war, many colleges last week announced plans for speeding up a college education without watering its quality: > Yale, Harvard and Princeton jointly launched a scheme to cut their course from four to less than three years by staying in session all year round. All three will let freshmen start next June instead...
...Seventy-six medical schools, members of the Association of American Medical Colleges, announced that they would go on a twelve-month year beginning next July, give the full medical course in three years. Little affected by the draft, the medical schools took this step to speed up production of doctors, estimated they would turn out 5,000 extra ones in the next three years...
...Most drastic (written by Northwestern Mutual Life and others) will not insure any male classified as 1-A by his draft board, will not consider writing a policy unless and until actual deferment has been granted...