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Energetic Bishop Sheil is not hurrying the Grail Ladies. Their U.S. leader, a plump, indomitable Dutch Ph.D. in philology, Dr. Lydwine van Kersbergen, spent a whole year rounding up her first group of 30 girls. From the lot, only six girls will be chosen to complete a three-year course leading to their vows. After that they will go into the world to do their work, carefully trained in Christian ethics, sociology, journalism, economics, art, apologetics...
...With Selective Service now the law of the land," said the Army, "quantity of personnel is no longer an Army problem but ... the quality of the small three-year enlistment nucleus of the Regular Army is of extreme importance...
...Army are kept there, the U.S. will have to rub out what it has done and start over again. For, in expanding the field Army from some 210,000 regulars (Sept. 1, 1939) to 1,448,500 (last week), the staff has had to spread its three-year professionals perilously thin. Only two divisions (First and Third) are now made up exclusively of three-year enlisted soldiers. The rest are compounds of draftees, reserve officers, regulars. In the 18 National Guard divisions, bulk of the Army's man power, the complication is worse. In all the 15 regular divisions...
...professional fighting man to the tip of his mustaches, but a private after years in the Queen's service ("I was rejuced aftherwards, but, no matther, I was a Corp'ril wanst"). Last week the U.S. Army announced, in effect, that no Mulvaneys were wanted. After their three-year enlistment, regular privates will not be allowed to re-enlist unless they are worthy of promotion to higher grade (i.e., noncommissioned rank) or have specialists' ratings...
...Army will probably be safer if the medical schools reject the three-year idea next fall for a six year combination of two years of premedical with four years of medical work. By deleting some of the purely academic undergraduate material, the total schooling time can be sufficiently shortened to meet the needs of the Army and the convenience of the student without sacrificing the actual professional training...