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...Where to enlist 175 Washington Street, Boston...
State officials were reminded of earlier instructions to put off induction of college and high school students for 30 days after the end of the academic year to enable them to find essential jobs or enlist...
...Bierce fled the family farm and the "unwashed savages," as he later called his parents, worked as a printer's devil for two years. When the Civil War broke out, he was among the first to enlist. Soldier Bierce did well; he served bravely at Shiloh and Chickamauga, marched into Georgia with Sherman, wound up a lieutenant. As a staff officer, he caught off-duty glimpses of such top brass as Sheridan and Grant. Of Grant's tippling, he recalled: "I don't think he took enough to comfort the enemy-not more than I did myself...
Under Marshall's latest plan, announced a month ago, students can pick their branch of service after the term is over, despite "physical" Datives. Thus the pressure on students to enlist during the school year is gone, and with it a great many reasons for joining any kind of military unit right now. There are, however, other reasons why a "wait and see" policy is now very much in order...
...Allow men between 18-18½ to enlist in the National Guard and Organized Reserves, and be deferred from the draft, until the Defense Secretary decided that those organizations are adequately filled...