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...medical students, science majors, and engineers should be exempt from the draft, according to the ballots of 390 voters. Only 47 felt that those studying in the social sciences or other fields of learning merited deferment...
...present time only medical and special science students are legally exempt. All others are allowed to completed only one academic year...
William Polk has had to face two other hurdles: money and Harvard University's rules. The first problem arose because, inexperienced in money raising, he did not apply to the Bureau of Internal Revenue for tax exempt status for gifts until his drive for funds was well under way; by the time he did apply, red tape would have kept him from getting approval until well after the time it would be useful. Failure to get the tax exempt status for gifts for a non-profit purpose cost him many contributions. Moreover, despite donations from the Harvard Liberal Union...
Speaking at Northeastern University's fiftieth anniversary celebration, President Conant hit upon the problems of choosing not from too few eligible draftees, but from too many. He pointed out that there are approximately 800,000 non-exempt 19 year olds, the largest eligible age group under the present act. "I am inclined to think we cannot choose among them with any degree of fairness...
President Conant rejected any plan to exempt immediately all college students, claiming that accidents of family finance and geography are larger determinants of who goes to college today. "And no one wants to turn out educational institutions into draft establishments...