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...such a brutal squeeze, what boys are to be deferred to continue their education? Last week a group of top educators and professional men, appointed by Hershey to make a two-year study, uncovered their answer: defer the bright boys. The plan had Hershey's firm endorsement...
Major General Lewis B. Hershey, director of Selective Service, has asked the College Board testing service in Princeton to plan an examination for college students by which draft boards can determine whom to defer, the CRIMSON learned last night...
...Council also passed a motion suggesting that the registrar send transcripts of students' grades as well as their class ranking to draft boards. The group feels this proposal would help defer a student who might have good grades and still not be in the top half of his class...
...draft proposal, made Friday by the Selective Service Board's Scientific Advisory Committee (but still not approved by the overall board) would defer all superior students, whatever their fields of concentration...
...freshman who, by virtue of previous military training or service, is entitled to credit for the first year, Basic Courses, but who, in the normal course of events, will complete the four years undergraduate study and graduate prior to reaching his 20th birthday, may be required to defer his enrollment in the second year, Basic Course, until the commencement of his sophomore year...