Ex-Dean Defends Deferment Tests

"The college Selective Service qualification test is not a plan exemption. It is actually nothing more than a deferment or postponement." Henry Chauncey '28, an ex-"baby" dean of the College and now president of the Educational Testing Service which is conducting the tests, made this reply to opponents of the program.

Chauncey said that the current hostility to the plan is based on a second misunderstanding. Instead of 880,000 men being affected by the test, only half that number will even take it.

"At the present, "Chauncey went on, "no permanent system of deferment by test or class standing exists or has even been proposed."