Word: law
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Third-year students at the Law School have not been affected at the since the current draft law grants them deferments...
...counteract possible draft effects, the Law School admitted 60 additional first-year students this year. This addition more than covers the termtime and summer losses to the draft...
Sixty-one first-year students have dropped out of the Law School since September. Of those who left, only 37 were drafted or volunteered for the army or the reserve. William L. Bruce '46 secretary off the Law School, said that most of those 37 volunteered for reserve units rather than wait for the draft. The others left mainly for personal reasons or to transfer to another school...
Some potential draftees leave the Law School during the summer to join the Peace Corps, Vista or teaching programs. Last year, 9 students joined the Peace Corps, 12 joined Vista and 24 entered deferrable occupations, mainly as teachers, during the summer. Only 16 entered deferrable occupations, mainly as teachers, during the summer. Only 16 entered some branch of the armed services...
...wake of the last annual meeting, the whole issue of who votes has stirred a good deal of controversy. The current by-law provisions seem reasonably straightforward in this respect. To have a quorum at the annual meeting five per cent of the current membership of students and faculty off Harvard, M.I.T., and the Episcopal Theological School must be present. The quorum-count does not include employee or alumni members, who comprise the other half of the Coop's nearly 50,000 total membership. If a quorum is present, a simple majority can elect a slate. Thus...