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...Uncle Sam. As Army and Navy expansion programs began to hop into the less conservative millions, the provision exempting Seniors was struck out of the Draft Bill, and the age limit was lowered to twenty. With a sizable percentage of college men now in danger of getting neither sheepskin nor commission, the Navy came through last December with a V-7 plan. This served a double purpose: it gave many students a chance to finish college, and it diverted much officer material away from the draft and into Naval officer training courses...
...already made satisfactory plans concerning commissions and degrees can be interviewed by an officer of the Marince Corps at University 20, during the next two days. But they will not find it any draft-dodging device or soft war berth. The Marines may want a man with a sheepskin, but they want to train him to lead platoons in combat. Their officers are now serving from Greenland to the Philippines and from Alaska to the tropics. Part of the U.S. Navy, the Marine Corps is the spearhead of our first line of defense. Each division is a self-sufficient unit...
...would not expect much more than a combination of "Dear Diary" and Harold Teen in a semi-autobiography describing the senior year of a clique of Vassar girls. In "Consider the Daisies," however, Miss Gertrude Carrick (with the ink scarcely dry on her sheepskin) returns to her alma mater for the setting of an unusually good, strikingly realistic first novel...
...good scholars, and would ordinarily take their General Examinations in May and get their degrees with the rest of the Class of '42. But, through no fault of their own, they will be forced to go from college into the army, navy, air corps or marines without the magical sheepskin, unless the Faculty votes today in favor of allowing them to take their Generals at mid-years...
Dean Landis supposes that a draftee unable to complete the Law Plan will be given his bachelor's degree. However, few students enrolled in the course would like to take a chance, no matter how small, of not having a sheepskin to show for four years' effort, and the Faculty committee with final authority in the matter has not as yet taken a stand. The would-be lawyers complain of a shortage of information, that the committee in charge has not communicated new regulations, and that their tutors are as ignorant of the Plan as they are. Only when liaison...