Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Selective Service qualifications of University students won't change a bit as a result of an order from Major General Lewis B. Hershey, draft director, that local boards should try to fill their February quotas with men 21 years old or over...
...John M. Wood of the Cambridge draft board stated last night, allaying fears stirred up among students by a story in a metropolitan newspaper...
...presenting the declaration on military manpower, the two lashed out at the present system of deferment by local draft boards. Tabbing the system as destructive to campus morale, they said it left uncertainties in the students' minds and pointed out that if mobilisation rates continued, there would be very few deferments...
...What the draft boards will do in the future is still a matter of speculation, but the admissions offices believe that unless there is a drastic change, the present system will continue for the coming year. The draft situation, as it stands now, allows a student to finsh the academic your if he maintains a sufficient class standing or does well on the deferment test...
James W. Wadsworth, chairman of the National Security Commission, told the House Armed Services Committee yesterday that Universal Military Training could be substituted for the draft, provided the world situation gets no worse...