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...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...
From Washington last week, Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey sent a memo about college students to U.S. local draft boards. The policy of Selective Service, until further notice: to defer drafting students who 1) have had at least a year of college, 2) stood in the upper half of their class last year, and 3) signed up for more college before...
...realize himself, and they can ruin him if he's pliable . . ." Perkins thought of himself as a literary midwife who helped a writer through the painful labor of creation (mainly by holding his hand), but never tried to shape the nature of his offspring. "Don't ever defer to my judgment," he wrote to Scott Fitzgerald in one of the letters collected in this book...
...Hague talks, helped persuade the Dutch to scale down their demands to 4.3 billion ($1.1 billion). Another tough nut was the future of New Guinea, a large part of which is still held by Dutch troops. Under the compromise which Van Royen had engineered, both parties agreed to defer a decision on New Guinea for a year...
British men, he noted, no longer take off their hats as they walk by London's Cenotaph (monument to Britain's war dead), or for the passing of a funeral or the flag. Women no longer bow when they meet; autoists no longer defer to skittish horses and their nervous riders on their way to Hyde Park's Rotten Row. Women stand in buses and trains while men and boys sit in comfort (a form of rudeness common even in non-Socialist communities...