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...public's" representatives were: Chairman Clarence Addison Dykstra, president of University of Wisconsin, director of the draft (a job he will resign), onetime city manager of Cincinnati, son of a Dutch minister; Frank Porter Graham, president of University of North Carolina, Southern-born, a fiery and apostolic liberal; and William Hammatt Davis, New York City patent attorney, former chairman of the New York State Board of Mediation. Wild-haired, level-headed Mr. Davis rehearsed for his new job by sitting in judgment on the New York City bus strike, which was ended last week...
Since several of the courses have already been struck off the list this year because of the departure of two professors, no new restrictions along this line must be made. The draft has hit the Sociology Department harder than the budget cut and worse than any other field. Two men have already been called to the colors, and Professor Zimmerman and Professor Homans are officers in the reserve...
With the broader effects of the financial restrictions already evident, all departments await the return of President Conant, the random blows of the draft, and an unforeseeable future to determine the detailed alterations in courses and instruction...
General Marshall and I have been devoted friends for years but on the subject of the draft, I believe that he and his advisers...
Because in World War I a universal conscription law caused draft riots and talk of Quebec's seceding from the Dominion, Canada's Army for World War II has so far been recruited from volunteers. For all 21-year-olds there has been a compulsory "training period" of 30 days, which the Government last month upped to four months-still not enough to most military minds for adequate training...