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Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey still insisted that the plan was flexible and fair, but quickly added that draft boards had only been told that they may defer bright collegemen; not that they shall. All was confusion again. The new plan provoked cries of favoritism, questions on whether aptitude tests are a proper basis for deferment, and a spate of radio comedians' gags. The outcry sounded as if Selective Service was planning to exempt college students, not merely defer them...
...famed Batsman Rogers Hornsby has opened an establishment called the Rogers Hornsby Baseball College Classrooms. Associated with Hornsby College is a school for umpires, now in its fifth year, operated by National League Umpire George Barr. Barr pupils will get their field work umpiring the games of the Hornsby Collegemen this year, just as they previously did at Doan intramural games. Professor Barr charges $60 for a six-week course. Enrolled this year are 60 students, aged 21 to 40. He has made umpires out of doctors, lawyers, barbers, boilermakers, has placed 76 in the minor leagues-"and a Barr...
...their power now to assist in raising the $4500 still required. Small gifts are very welcome as well as larger ones. Checks may be sent to Mr. George G. Wright, Treasurer, 86 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge, or to Mr. Robert E. Ely, Prospect tive Cambridgeport. The following collegemen will receive and forward contribution; N. Hayward '95, J. K. Whittemore '95, F. W. Grinnell '95, H. Cabot '94, C. H. Crane '94, H. Kennedy '94, A. C. Nash '94, S. M. Williams '94, W. E. Cobb '94, W. F. Lee '94, W. K. Brice '95, A. W. Cooley...
...certain would-be wits have made on account of those boyish ideas that all young men have. But let us not, like our Michigan contemporary, give up all that is good in order to add our voices to this clamor. The proportion of intelligent men is much larger among collegemen than among those voters without a college education. Let us, then, not sneer at the influence college men have in politics, but let all college trained men unite to do their best in endeavoring to make the government of our country what it should be, as clean and strong...
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