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...National Council of Graduate Schools predicted Thursday that total U.S. graduate enrollment will drop 70 per cent next year because of the draft. But Thomas K. Sisson '46, assistant dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, said that "Harvard's losses should be no greater than 40 per cent...
...Sisson also feels prepared for the problems posed by the Selective Service because he "strongly suspected" several months ago that the National Security Council would rescind graduate deferments for all professions but medicine, as it did two weeks...
However reconciled to a diminished entering class next September, Sisson objects greatly to students' careers being interrupted after the first year of graduate work...
...meantime, until these returning people take up the slack, the school faces lean times. Sisson places no hope in local draft boards, which, he believes, "have absolutely no more autonomy," and he feels the GSAS must resign itself to a loss of up to one million dollars next year...
...Still, Sisson sees Harvard's action essentially as weathering the storm. "I think it is abominable to ask the classes of '67 and '68 to provide two-thirds of this year's draft quota" he says, "but a lot of people have panicked, and we don't intend...