Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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University Graduate Schools expressed satisfaction with the present draft situation yesterday, and unlike other schools throughout the country, they expect a general increase in enrollment next year...
...Complaints and Action Commission." He dictated an executive order that complaint telegrams may be sent for 10 centavos, or free should that be too much for a poor man to pay. He wanted to sign it right away, and when told a draft would have to be drawn up, exploded: "Dammit, the people's problems won't wait for commas...
...years, its various committees and commissions have formulated policy on everything from academic freedom to the effect of the draft. It has tried to stimulate interest in the fine arts by organizing 2,585 programs on campuses across the U.S. It has sponsored lectures by distinguished foreigners, has set up teacher retirement and annuity programs at scores of colleges. It has made sweeping studies of Christian education, has helped organize 26 state foundations to boost corporate giving. In 1943 it anticipated the famed Harvard Report by calling for a "core" of required liberal arts courses in the first two years...
Nyhan explained that the draft boards will aim at the "older age bracket" during 1954 although they may call some men as young as 20 years...
Nyhan said the low draft call will have no effect on undergraduate draft regulations. Any freshman standing in the top half of his class will still be deferred from the draft for his sophomore year. Any sophomore in the top two-thirds of his class will be deferred during his junior year. Any junior in the top three-quarters of his class will be deferred for his senior year. And any senior in the top half of his class may be deferred for his first year of graduate study...