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Although Radcliffe's accelerated program puzzled the world when it was first announced, it is gradually becoming clear that the acceleration is an insidious attempt to snare Mr. Right before he goes marching off to the South Seas. College girls have long suffered from the competition of working girls, who don't have to grow old while they wait for a diploma. If they had to hang around Cambridge for one or two years after the accelerated Harvard man graduated, the case would be nearly hopeless. The obvious solution was this feebly disguised attempt to race the draft board.

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