Cambridge Board Sends Draft Call To Harvard Soon

Selective, Service will begin tapping Harvard men next week for induction in June.

Screenings and physical examinations for the state's 550-man draft quota are slated to begin Wednesday, December 1, with selectees to be inducted in January. The Cambridge draft board has announced that of 50 men expected to come up for examinations, about 20 will be from the University. If accepted they will probably be deferred until June.

So far this is the largest quota to be called under the peacetime military training program. Draft officials has credited the large proportion to the high rejection rate of the peacetime draft.

Men in the 24-25 age group will be called first to supply the 1,850 men scheduled to come up for screening, but draft authorities have predicted that such a large draft quota will involve the 22-year-old age group

Harvard students already receiving millitary training under the ROTC, NROTC, Enlisted Reserve Corps of the Army-and Navy, and branches of the National Guard are exempted from the regular draft program. Deforments will be made for special students