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...total number of applications this year has dropped from last year's level of 915 to the present figure of 885. This decrease is one of the factors which has conspired with the draft to lower this year's quta to unfilled applications...
...wonders," he went on, "whether we in the United States will be far-sighted enough to profit by the example." It was probably with this in mind that President Conant sent a letter recently to all men at Harvard affected by the draft, advising them to decide immediately whether or not they wished to seek determent...
...Harvard University graduate schools whose students will necessarily be affected by the July 1 draft deadline, the Law School has found perhaps the most complete solution to the problem. Combined efforts of committees on the separate State Bar examinations and cooperating Federal draft deferment provisions have made it possible for the 399 third year law students, with almost no exceptions, to take their Bar exams after finishing school in June...
Unlike the Draft Act of 1917, the present Selective Training and Service Act provides for those who conscientiously object without regard to any religious sect or organization. According to a memorandum by President Roosevelt sent to Dr. Clarence A. Dykstra, national director of selective service, the basis of deferment from combatant military and service is to be not only "religious training" but also "belief...
...another letter from national head-quarters, addressed to all State Directors of the draft, certain fields are listed in which there is a "dangerously low level of manpower." Among these are chemistry, and five different kinds of engineering...