Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increase in student draftees will be accomplished by increasing the draft test passing mark slightly and the class standing requirements necessary to remain in school, the official revealed...
French, a junior, will go to trial as a draft dodger under the Selective Service Act. Forbes added that "As a group our action towards peace is more concerned with national and international relations in the social, political, and economic spheres...
When asked if they would serve under the draft, three of the four members present replied affirmatively. One of the four, Louis F. Sharpe '54, stated that the most effective means towards peace is through a comprehensive study of situations and an attempt to reach the minds of all peoples...
...event a student decides to quit or fails to meet minimum requirements for his commission, the contract stipulates that his deferment will be revoked and the student will be subject to immediate draft. Whether a student is drafted or not will still depend on the local boards...
...First Congress. Out of his cell, the little father of Soviet Russia smuggled a program for a new Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party. Only nine delegates managed to get past the police and mutter hurriedly for three days at Minsk in 1898. They just had time to draft a manifesto before the police caught up with them...