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Draft Boards Find College's Upper Half Exceeds Lower

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The upper half of the College is bigger than the lower half. Draft boards uncovered the fact this summer when they tried to draft the academic lower half of Harvard. They found it was not the traditional 50 percent of the College, but a scanty 46.7 percent.

University Hall wasn't trying to swindle the Selective Service out of three percent of its potential draftees. The Dean's Office dutifully made an academic classication on an arbitrary point basis. But Group IV students clustered around the 50 percent mark, so the University could either cheat itself or Selective Service. It chose the latter.

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