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While there are other proposals on deferment policy, none differs much in principle from the Trytten report. As originally released on October 5, it called for test of all men, probably something like the present Army Classification examination. Those receiving a score over 120 would be eligible for deferment if they were going to enter or were in college. At the end of the first year in college all men below the top 50 percent of their class would be subject to draft. In third year the student would have to stay in the top 33rd percentile; the senior must...
...deferred for college be made liable one year beyond the regular age limit for every year he spends in school after deferment, and that such men not be eligible for deferment on grounds of dependency. Thus, a man deferred for a four year college course would, under the present age limit rule, be subject to drafting until he reached 30, and could not avoid service by marrying...
...that it will seriously hurt small colleges, which might have to go out of business during the first two years of U.M.S. No college official actually uses this argument, since it sounds particularistic, especially if a small college, or a poor one, is involved. President Conant feels that the present situation demands putting the national good before the good of colleges...
There are, as Dean Bender says, many points neglected in all of the present proposals. What would happen to the present ROTC programs under them? Would the Services reinstitute the V-12 programs of the war years? What would happen to the colleges and their faculties? It will be up to Congress to work out all the angles...
...arguments used against the present deferments system--with local draft boards normally granting leave to men in the top half of their class--is that it can only produce around 750,000 soldiers a year. To keep a 3,000,000 man army more draftees are absolutely necessary. President Conant hopes to raise a larger army with his program granting no deferments...