Word: meds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unattached multitudes of just plain draft registrants are rapidly dwindling with the 18-year change clearing out all but the most juvenile and scientific slowly but surely. Men in certain science fields are scheduled for deferment, but that's subject to change. Pre-meds, most of whom are in the ERC (deferred from active duty for a while) or V-1, have hopes of getting to med school under service orders...
Forty-one Army medical officers began a six-week course at the Med School yesterday, studying general surgery as well as diseases of the chest, extremities, face, and law. This is the first uniformed group at the Medical School, and will be followed by other similar contingents...
...appalling fact dawned recently on Principal Leonard Mayfield of the Med ford, Ore. high school - there had not been a single fist fight .among his 350 little gentlemen in a year. A husky old wrestler himself, Principal Mayfield realistically reflected that many of his boys would soon have to know how to kill other boys. By last week Medford High's physical edu cation program had been radically revised. The new course, called "Personal Combat," is ranger-style training in high school. Says Mayfield: "It's gang-fighting, that's what...
Although 200 instructors, one-third of the Med School faculty, are now taking an active part in the war effort, Dr. Fitz stated that they had not been forced to curtail their teaching facilities. The main problem, he said, was to maintain a steady flow of medical students...
...month age, the presumption now is that all enlistees in the Military Reserve may expect to be inducted into the regular Army at the end of the scholiast term in which they attain their draft age. Exception may be made, however, in the case of a very few pre-med, pre-dental, and electronics concentrators. "I am willing to guess," said Perkins, "with the situation as vague as it is, that we will have a clear statement from the War Department within the next two or three weeks...