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...expand in emergencies. The size at College jumped from 360 to 520 men then. Sophomores were allowed to join the corps too; in fact, they could do so until 1947. Military Science instruction was given in half courses in order that new enrollments might take place at mid-year...
...Eighteen graduate students and 19 undergraduates left the Annex to get married, live nearer their families, or because of low grades. Only two freshmen--an unusually small number according to Ruth Davenport, Registrar--left the Annex as a result of academic difficulties. None of the departing 'Cliffies graduated at mid-year...
Defense Secretary George Marshall last week ground out a policy order intended to stop college men from tossing away their books in mid-year and pounding down to the recruiting station. Gist of the new policy: while local draft boards can still summon college men for pre-induction physicals, that summons will no longer mean that a man has lost the right to pick his service. From now on (so long as the Air Force and Navy continue to have "openings"), any college man due to be drafted can pick his service right up to the last month...
Letters will be received this morning by the 30 or 40 men presently living in the suites. They will be told that with the usual mid-year drop in enrollment, the present Dudley residents will be accomodated in the Houses or in Claverly and Apley...
...third year Law students started the idea. At mid-year, they recruited ten second year men, to train them so that they could take over, and that's the way it's carried...