Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Starting today, men who haven't taken their draft deferment test yet, can pick up applications for the three hour quiz at Phillips Brooks House...
...manpower problem is already worrying draft boards. The expanded services will need 4,000,000 men, 500,000 more than the present total. At week's end, before the Statement of Forces could be approved by the President, the Defense Department announced that nearly 56,000 men would be inducted in November and December. The 4,000,000 figure cannot be reached without drastically changing the present policies of deferment...
Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell, said he would approach the question of relaxing parietal rules with an open mind. He explained that last year the Masters feared the draft would absorb upperclassmen from the Houses, that freshmen would be admitted in their places, and that under such circumstances it would be unwise to loosen parietal restrictions...
Last year the Student Council drew up a petition to change the eight o'clock weekend curfew and placed it before the board of Housemasters, who promptly tabled the issue. They gave the tenuous draft situation as their excuse. If many upperclassmen left college freshmen might have to fill the vacant spaces in the Houses making liberal room permissions unwise. But few men entered the armed forces over the summer, and there is no longer any basis for using the crisis situation as a bogeyman to block a change in the rules...
...board to interpret. Entitled Operations Bulletin 51, it grants postponement of physical or induction to veterans who prior to February 24, 1948 entered upon active duty, and who after that date were honorably discharged upon the completion of two or more years service. Heretofore, such veterans were considered eligible draft material...