Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there ever was value in the student deferment test plan, it was the slight measure of certainty it afforded both students and local draft boards. The draft test has never been a positive basis for deferment. But though yearly grades must be considered as well as a high score on the test, and though the final decisions lie with the local boards, the test results have at least served as a standard on which students could plan the amount of time they could spend working, and on which draft boards could base their decisions...
Major General Hershey has now deprived the test sys of its one meagre function. By indicating that he will raise or lower the passing grade depending on the needs of the armed forces, Hershey has reduced the draft problem to its status before the tests were administered: confusion...
Class standings may be used as a basis for draft deferments next year, General Louis B. Hershey, Director of Selective Service, said last night in Washington...
Students in a low division in a big university may be smarter than those at the top of their classes in small state colleges, Hershey noted. But most draft boards have been ignoring the test scores when considering a student, he feels, and he may be forced to re-adopt the class standings criterion...
...report, Bender stated, asks that the title of House Dean be used, but the final draft calls them Senior Tutors. Only those with the rank of associate professor or higher would be considered for the post of Senior Tutor, but now that is left open. In respect to the commuters, the report recommended distributing them to the Houses. Under the present plan, commuters would have their own dean...