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Last call for Juniors who have not been exempted from the draft to have their pictures taken for the 1942 Senior Album was issued by John A. Holsbird '42, photographic chairman for the class book yesterday afternoon...
...meeting is designed not only for men with plans for joining the corps, but also for any student who has an interest in flying. This aviation plan offers men whose draft numbers are liable to early call an opportunity to get into the services as officers...
...Army has a vast problem in training men and officers as well as producing machines. Not till 1942 will most members of the draft Army have a year's training as soldiers. With shortages of equipment and of trained field officers the training of the men will probably be none too far advanced by then...
...join student military-training units, report their progress in university to recruiting boards, and if they fall behind in their studies they may be called up at once. Only scientific, dental and medical students get this exemption. Students of arts and humanities can get just a one-year draft deferment to enter a university and then only if they show "promise of leadership...
...World War I, 25.3% of the first 1,500,000 U.S. citizens examined for the Army were illiterate. The average soldier had only half completed the seventh grade of grammar school. No figures were available last week on the number of illiterates in the draft, but the average soldier has finished his third year of high school...