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...announcement stated that those advanced course students who are members of the Enlisted Reserve Corps will be automatically called to active duty; those who are not in the ERC are expected to be voluntarily inducted into the Army in accordance with special arrangements to be made with the War Department...
Dealing with date of call of the ERC, it was stated: "By January 1, 1943, the War Department will have completed its preparation to call to active duty enlisted reserve corps students covered by section g (7) of the Army Plan. These students will thereafter begin to receive orders to report for active duty at designated times and places. No orders will be given to report on a date prior to two weeks after the completion of the student's first academic quarter, term, or semester terminating after December...
Interviewing Andrew E. Rice '43 and James McNulty '45, Sanford proved that such rumors as the one about the ERC being called up before January and the curtailing of train travel during Christmas vacation were without foundation, and backed up his statement with facts from the most authoritative sources at his disposal...
...said, "University delays immediate action" as the nation "prepares to fight Axis," Dean Buck last night issued a statement announcing that the release of the manpower-college plan may be postponed for several days. No official clarification could be obtained either on the expected War Department rulings affecting the ERC and ROTC...
Rumors that decisions on the ERC and the ROTC had been made public emanated from a morning Boston newspaper story and an evening radio broadcast. Attempts to trace the newspaper story through the wire services and the Boston and New York press failed to substantiate its statement that the Enlisted Reserve would be called up "within a few weeks." No basis for the radio report could be uncovered. Officials in the Military Science Department and at the First Corps Area Headquarters in Boston reported that they were uninformed of the rumored action...