U.S. college students and colleges finally learned their wartime fate last week. For the colleges it was worse than they had feared. As President Roosevelt signed the teen-age draft bill, making most of their students draftable, he said he would soon announce a plan to use "certain colleges and universities for the training of a limited number of men of the armed forces for highly specialized duties." The plan had already been outlined to Congress when the bill passed:
> Some 100,000 uniformed men, picked by competitive examination regardless of whether they have previously attended college or could afford tuition, will...
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