Word: hershey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Earlier, Major General Lewis B. Hershey, Director of Selective Service, issued a directive which said a law student working on his first law degree was to be considered an undergraduate. As an undergraduate, a law student needs a 70 on the draft test, while a graduate student needs a 75 to maintain his deferred status...
...policy of considering law students as undergraduates was formulated in late September by Hershey. Selective Service officials pointed out the wide divergence among law schools in both entrance requirements and length of course. Local boards, officials said, had difficulty deciding whether a law student was a graduate or undergraduate...
...Hershey therefore decided to consider all law students as undergraduates whether they are in a seven or eight year program. However, a student who has one law degree and is on his way for a second is considered a graduate student by Selective Service...
...Force will be built up to a total of 140 groups and corresponding expansion of the Navy and Army is planned. A present pool of 600,000 potential 1-A's will probably be exhausted by July, 1952 Major General Lewis B. Hershey indicated recently...
Actually the chief effect of the Hershey ruling on the Law School would be that blanket graduate deferment would no longer apply, and, like undergraduates, Law students would have to depend on their draft boards to be redeferred at the end of each year. With undergraduate status, however, a 70 on the draft test is all that would be required for deferment rather than the graduate score...