Word: hershey
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Selective Service qualifications of University students won't change a bit as a result of an order from Major General Lewis B. Hershey, draft director, that local boards should try to fill their February quotas with men 21 years old or over...
Major General Hershey has now deprived the test sys of its one meagre function. By indicating that he will raise or lower the passing grade depending on the needs of the armed forces, Hershey has reduced the draft problem to its status before the tests were administered: confusion...
...some reason for the proposed hike in passing grade. just as presumably there was some reason for setting the passing score at 70 last year. If the score were set as a matter of arbitrary convenience. Selective Service could have no excuse whatsoever for the raise. But it as Hershey has hinted, the deferment score is merely a relative standard which can be moved up and down according to the exigencies of the Armed Forces and local boards, the students have a a right to be told...
...Hershey has taken away what little certainty he had held out to students. If he is going to dispense with a definite passing score on the deferment test, it is at least up to him to give college students some basis for knowing just how much time they have left to their studies...
Students in a low division in a big university may be smarter than those at the top of their classes in small state colleges, Hershey noted. But most draft boards have been ignoring the test scores when considering a student, he feels, and he may be forced to re-adopt the class standings criterion...