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...military service. This was a waste of valuable manpower, argued Colonel Warner Bowers, chief surgical consultant for the Army, last week. Most 4-Fs could have been used for less strenuous service behind the lines. His recommendation: abolish the 4-F category, classify such men for special limited duty, defer them until they are needed...
...While Harvard might not be hurt by a two year hiatus," he said, "Other colleges might." One the other hand, Bender pointed out flaws in the testing system that would be used to defer students under a deferment program. Such tests, he explained, are likely to discriminate against men who are lacking in background; they do not measure a man's intelligence so much as they do his education...
...direct opposition to three others: 1) the Administration's Universal Military Training plan (HR 9411), which calls for a partly-civilian controlled Corps separate from the Services; 2) the plan tacitly approved by General Hershey; and 3) a proposal of the American Council on Education which would defer men on the basis of the test and state quotas...
...University upon request will send a grade transcript to the local board, Selective Service will then reclassify all men in the upper half of their class and defer them until graduation. The lower half will be assured of being ignored by their local boards at least until June...
Educators have been backing a test of the College Board variety to exempt or defer college men, because they feel it would be a better ruler of academic ability than selection of the top half of every class. The ability of superior students at one university might not equal average students at another, many educators have thought...