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According to Watson's present plans, a maximum of 20 men per House will live off-campus next year, but he will re-examine this quota before the year ends. Watson said that most Houses would fill their quotas with seniors, leaving few spaces open for juniors...
...spot check of the Houses yesterday revealed that most were able to allow all senior applicants to live off-campus, but that few Houses had any spaces on the off-campus quota for juniors...
Zeph Stewart, Master of Lowell House, was "surprised" that only 18 or 19 seniors--fewer than last year--applied to live off-campus. He attributed the small number to hopes for deconversion in Lowell, currently the most crowded House. Rather than fill the quota with juniors, Stewart said, he would wait to see if seniors discontented with room assignments decided to move off at the last moment...
Coupled with the new law's abolition of graduate deferments for all but medical students, Johnson's inaction left the Defense Department with 1.1 million eligible men and no way to select its quota of 300,000 except by descending age-sequence: oldest men first. With that procedure, two-thirds of the Army's recruits starting in June would be college graduates. A Defense Department official said that the Army could not "tolerate" such a high proportion of old, recalcitrant, unmalleable...
...latest proposal being considered would draft men according to the percentages of the various age groups represented in the total eligibility pool. For example, if 21-year-olds made up 15 per cent of the total pool, then they would make up 15 per cent of each month's quota...