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Unofficial announcement of the plan for all college students was revised tonight. The upper half of the freshman class would be deferred as sophomores, as reported yesterday, but the top two thirds, instead of one third, of the sophomore class would be deferred in the junior year, and three quarters they would again be subject to a call...
Dean Bender yesterday criticized sharply the new proposals of the Selective Service deferment committee which would keep top college students out of the draft. "Why rule the best brains out of the Army and Navy?" Bender said. "It doesn't seem to me to be a very sensible thing...
...order to be deferred beyond the freshman year of college, a student would have to stand in the upper half of the freshman class. Sophomores would have to rank in the top third of their class to be deferred, and juniors would have to be in the highest quarter...
Naturally, the Crusaders are favored. They belong among the top five teams in the nation and their only losses so far this winter have been two-pointers to Kentucky and Tulane, and a six-point yielding to the number one team, Easy Ed Macauley and/or St. Louis. But generally, the Cross has to work up a good sweat to dispose of the Crimson...
...Roger. Take off. Cleared for take-off, and we will give you your clearance when you report on top...