With a suddenness which stunned college presidents and students alike, the Army last week ordered 110,000 of its most promising young men out of school for assignment to active duty. Only student-soldiers left at their desks in the once huge Army Specialized Training Program were about 30,000 taking advanced courses in medicine, dentistry and engineering, and 5,000 pre-induction students including the 17-year-olds.
Set up to provide trained brains for a technician's war, the A.S.T.P. was halted by the superior necessities of full-scale operations. Inevitable casualties demanded immediate replacements. Selective Service had failed by 200,000 to meet the Army's expected total...