Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Director of the Selective Service System has issued a special bulletin to all local and appeals draft boards directing them to give all graduate students two calendar years to attain master's degrees and as long as five years to obtain a doctoral degree...
Under the previous draft law, too many students were being inducted halfway through graduate school, Mitchell continued. The Defense Department revised its graduate school deferment program in order to be certain those in graduate school received their degree before being drafted...
Under the earlier draft policy, as established by an Executive Order in March of 1951, college seniors had only to graduate in the upper half of their class or attain a score of 75 on the deferment test to be eligible for graduate school deferment...
...Executive Order tightening admissions criteria is applicable only to persons entering after January 1, 1955. Those who entered prior to that date will continue to be covered by old criteria and are therefore still subject to the draft...
Previously, a graduating student needed to be in the upper half of his class, or have scored 75 out of 100 on his deferment test to gain draft exemption in graduate school. But under the new ruling most graduate school bound students will have to have between an A-minus and B-plus average for the senior year, Sargent Kennedy '28, Registrar of the College, explained yesterday. In the past, a senior year average of between B and B-minus guaranteed draft deferment...