Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elliott Perkins, master of Lowell House, who has taken over for Professor A James Casner as head of the War Service Information Bureau, has released the details of the Army Emergency Deferment Enlistment Plan. Under this scheme, which is only open for two weeks, any student who knows he is about to go into the Army, but has not setually received his induction papers yet, may, if approved by the Army, and reccomended by Perkins, enlist in this new plan...
...first of July, Army officials will have the details of their announced deferment enlistment plan, of which this is an emergency fore-runner. At that time, Perkins' office in University Hall R will have the full information, and will be the agent for enlisting Harvard men in the scheme...
...Roosevelt, Education's Dr. John W. Studebaker and Paul McNutt put under study a scheme to give "the functionally illiterate" basic training in reading, writing and arithmetic. Most offensive to a nation proud of its educational standards were the States of Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina. More than 30% of their populations, aged 25 and older, have had fourth-grade schooling or less...
Conant's scheme smacked of World War I's S.A.T.C. (Students' Army Training Corps), a flop that cost some $160 millions. But Conant argues that S.A.T.C. had too short a trial. The president of Harvard's plan would certainly be expensive, and it would more or less convert all colleges into West Points and Annapolises. But, says Conant, it would also restore "an essential element in our democracy-the birthright of opportunity which in an earlier age was the gift of the American frontier...
Failure of the conference to announce any integrated scheme for North American air training meant that the present program of each nation controlling its own trainees-while leaving closer liaison work to respective high commands-would continue...