Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Extended the armed forces' doctor-dentist draft for two years, to July...
Students wishing their class rankings for 1952-53 to be sent to draft boards are requested to come to University Hall. Room B, before they leave Cambridge. Each student should bring two stamped envelopes. These forms will be sent only on request...
...Lewis B. Hershey, director of Selective Service, said yesterday that defense mobilization officials are studying proposed changes to tighten draft deferments for college students...
...changes, scheduled to become effective in September, provide that high school seniors be allowed to take the Selective Service draft deferment test which only college students have thus far been permitted to take...
Hershey emphasized that the local draft boards still have the final say on deferments, but would probably weigh heavily the test scores and class standings...