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Students and the Draft

NOV 01, 1950
A premium on ability
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Two years ago Major General Lewis B. Hershey, director of the Selective Service System, appointed six scientific advisory committees (representing the agricultural and biological sciences, the engineering sciences, the healing arts, the humanities, the physical sciences, and the social sciences) to advise him on the question of how Selective Service should classify students in the “best interest of the national economy and the health, safety and interest of the Nation.”

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