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...March 7, Lewis B. Hershey, Deputy Director of the Selective Service System, issued an official ruling to all State Directors permitting the local boards to "defer such a registrant in Class 1-A for a relatively short period pending such examination." This solved the problem for most of the students...
Local boards, continued this memorandum, may at their discretion defer registrants for a short period to Class II, who are preparing or training for examinations held "under public authority" for persons desiring to be licensed in various professional and technical fields...
...effects of conscription upon the students, the Conference approved a plan to prohibit the drafting of undergraduates until the end of the academic year. Jack McMichael, chairman of the American Youth Congress, called for "more scholarships, not more battleships" and asked that students organize, as in England, to defer their conscription into the Army until after graduation...
...ultimate aim of distribution. The only way to avoid these difficulties is to provide the broad area surveys which the Faculty has approved in theory but shelved indefinitely. No difficulties, either the piddling ones of content or the more potent one of finances, should be allowed to defer the setting up of the area courses at the soonest opportunity. Without them the distribution requirements, although headed in the right direction, will be a futile gesture...
Even more vexed and vexing was the question of deferment for dependency. Last month in Washington Chairman Andrew May of the House Military Affairs Committee said that the intent of his committee was to defer men for dependency, not for marriage. Yet in Washington itself only seven or eight draft boards followed this principle, ordered draftees to service if their wives were selfsupporting. The other 17 or 18 held that homes should not be broken up in peacetime, deferred married men somewhat on the pattern ordered for the New York City boards. In Cleveland, Ohio, the Cuyahoga County Board...