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...proposed reduction of the minimum draft age from 21 to 18 is passed by Congress, 96.6 percent of all present undergraduates will be subject to selective service, according to a study of age and enrollment figures for the entire College...
...corner of his mouth. The Yankees' prize rookie had lived up to his reputation all right-in 15 exhibition games he had batted .438, a better average than that of any other Yankee, including Batting Champion Joe Di Maggio. But the Scooter had a low number in the draft, had been examined at St. Petersburg, pronounced physically fit. Last week, in time's nick, Rizzuto's home-town draft board granted his request for deferment (because of dependents), gave the approaching baseball season the most spectacular rookie since Bob Feller...
First to raise an alarm was Harvard's President James Bryant Conant. An ardent champion of the draft law, he nevertheless warned U.S. officials last year that efficient national defense required that future scientists and engineers be allowed to finish their training. Two months ago a National Committee on Education and Defense called a conference of bigwig educators in Washington, heard an almost unanimous plea that Congress continue the system of deferring conscription of students until the end of their school year...
...this left Congress and draft officials unconvinced. But last month Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey, Deputy Director of Selective Service, urged local draft boards to be careful about drafting needed scientists and technicians. Each case, said he, must be considered on its own merits, i.e.: the student's progress in his studies, his chances of getting...
Last week General Hershey went to New Haven, faced 72 professors and students from 20 New England colleges who had been convened by Yale and the International Student Service to ponder the Draft and Defense. Bluntly informing them that the Army needed college men as leaders and meant to draft them, General Hershey declared: "I do not think there is anything sacred about a ... college education. . . . The thing that frightens me is the 'business as usual' cry. . . . Going to school because you have nothing else to do is last year...