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WAR SERVICE POLL COUNTED

Civilian Defense and Social Service Attract Many Men

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Faced with the tremendous problem of coordinating the enlarged student war effort, the War Service Committee has negotiated the first hurdle in its fall organization by compiling the cards filled out by all undergraduates on registration day. These cards, stating the services which each student wished to offer, have been tabulated and are to be used as the basis for membership in each of the component groups that make up the Committee.

One of the most important services, in which an overwhelming number of men showed interests, was interceptor command work, which centers about the Boston Command's headquarters in town. During this week the officers of the Command have organized a new group which will carry on with this vital service during winter months.

Among other groups to be organized during the first month of school is the volunteer orderly section, which is to begin its work during the coming week at the Both Israel Hospital in Boston. This series of instruction and work courses continues the program started at the Massachusetts General Hospital last year, which resulted in the training of a number of orderlies nurses who have taken posts at Army camps throughout the country.

Additional services for which great numbers of men have subscribed, according to Adam Yarmolinsky '43, head of the Committee, were the Harvard auxiliary police and first aid groups. The emergency policemen will meet for organization next week, and will continue to assemble for training and pistol practice for almost a month more. First aid courses meet once a week for a total of 20 hours, with candidates for warden posts required to take an extra eight hours of instruction

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