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...million abroad. In peacetime their nonconformity got them deep in trouble with local and state authorities. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1940 that their children must salute the flag in public schools, in 1942 that they could not distribute literature without peddlers' licenses. Jehovah's Witnesses regard themselves as ministers, but draft boards often refuse to exempt them from Army service. This week more than 450 of the group's men of military age are in prison for refusing to heed induction notices...
Undergraduates and University Hall alike, then, can no longer regard disciplinary probation as the badge of a collegiate gentleman or a red flag to be liberally waved. The Dean's office must find some substitute as a warning to delinquent reservists; an intermediate step between the proctor's reproach and expulsion must be found. And on the other hand undergraduates must understand that University rules cannot be relaxed because military standards are rigid. The fact that the consequences of probation are often severe is no reason for its application to be abandoned. Abuse can be avoided only if both Deans...
...John C. H. ("Cliff") Lee, the cherubic, bald, bee-busy U.S. supply chief in England, refuses to change his outfit's name from Services of Supply to Army Service Forces until officially and specifically ordered to do so. (He has not yet received such an order.) Military men regard his organization as a model of efficiency in all things great & small. As an example, SOS men in London last week pointed with pride to an American-English glossary General Lee had had printed for his men. Immediate reason: someone almost sent to the U.S. for garbage cans when there...
Critics, suspicious at first, or irritated by this presumptive bidding by a novice, found the new Culbertson system worth serious regard. He had tackled the postwar world like a bridge problem involving a deck with 2,000,000,000 cards, hundreds of suits. His solution was as logical and precise as his card-playing...
...this column ever again predicts faculty policy with regard to grades, don't believe it. Not because it's wrong when written, but it probably will have been changed at least three times before we go to press...