Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrinkle in the draft policy came this week when General Hershey brought up the subject of college men who married and became fathers during their academic career. He felt that the public would rebel at such men getting "permanent deferment...
...Besides draft worries, the Class of '56 may find tuition, room rent, and board hikes before their graduation day. The College, as others throughout the country during the present inflation, is in the midst of an economy wave, and while no boosts in any of the rates are foreseen here yet, Yale, Dartmouth, and Columbia were forced to raise tuition last year. The College's board went from $14 to $14.50 last spring, and no immediate additional rise is seen...
...passing mark on the draft test is no assurance of deferment. The decision on every man is up to the individual draft board. A good college standing plus a high mark on the test has been good bargaining material in the past, and may continue to be, depending, of course, on the world situation. In past years, there has been a notable increase of the number of men on Dean's list...
...high point of all anti-Conant fervor came just before the last war when the president was an ardent advocate of aid to Great Britain and further intervention by the United States. He naturally supported the nation's first peace-time draft. This naturally engendered a certain hostility from the College, since some undergraduates got the idea that Conant was trying to force them all into the Army to get shot at. This was hardly a fair attitude, especially since one of his two sons was at the time eminently draftable, but student picketing of Conant speeches nevertheless became...
...Gloucester draft board on September 5 protested in a later to Senators Salton-stall and Lodge that it was being forced to administer "a rich man's law which is grossly unfair to thousands of young men. We do not feel that just because an individual has money enough to go to graduate school that he should be continually defered...