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...make clear what would happen to them. This impression is, in at least one way, incorrect. What the students are actually waiting for is action by the Chief Executive; in the new bill as in the Selective Service Act now on the books the president has all authority to defer students...
...Give the President authority to defer annually some 75,000 specialized students (to be selected by a civilian board...
About 530 Princeton undergraduates--one-sixth of the College--and 325 Yale men are now studying Military Science while Harvard has only 200. The Army and Air Force defer 175 Princeton freshmen while only 98 are deferred in Cambridge...
...universal military service is accepted as the pattern," Conant told the American Council on Education Friday, "there (should) be written right into the present bill provisions by which selective service will defer all those men who are today enrolled in our colleges, technical schools, and universities...
...year-olds, she figured that 800,000 would go into military service. Most of those physically unfit for military duty could probably be drafted for "some work" in the nation's service. For the first three years of the program, the President would have authority to defer 75,000 students annually so they could finish collegebut only after they had completed four months of basic training and agreed to serve the other 23 months after graduation...