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Although recent reports had indicated that ERC men unassigned would receive their orders this week, and it has been revealed that two small New England colleges have already been notified that their reservists would be inducted February 12, it is unlikely that orders will be received here before next week, and the promised two weeks of respite will probably still be given, Eliot Perkins '23, declared last night...
...ERC men in Hillyer Junior College, Hartford, Connecticut, and Portland Junior College, Portland, Maine, have recieved orders and will report at Fort Devens on February 12. A release from the headquarters of the First Service Command could not give any more definite date for the larger colleges except "in the next few weeks...
Details constantly flowing from Washington have served to clarify the picture of the gigantic manpower program first released December 17. In particular, first-year advanced course ROTC students who are members of the ERC will be called to duty upon the initiation of the Army Specialized Training Program. Men in Mil Sci 3 will remain in school until May, after which they will receive military training in replacement training centers and then attend OCS or study further under the Army specialized training program...
Thirty days prior to issuance of any order to ERC men unassigned, any men who have indicated their preference for the Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard, will have their names forwarded to Washington with the announcement that they are eligible for discharge from the ERC. In no case will such a man be inducted before the service of his indicated choice has had a chance to pass upon his suitability. Failure of a student to obtain admission to the Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard will return him to the jurisdiction of the ERC program...
...clarify a somewhat hazy situation in regard to the approved engineering courses mentioned in the ERC announcement of last Monday, Elliott Perkins '23, director of the War Service Information Bureau, announced last night that a series of "interpretations" had been received from Washington...