Attacks Student Deferment

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

This college draft deferment business reaches the height of nauseating absurdity when one looks at photos of thousands of able bodied young men rushing to avoid serving their country. The hokum that this is "deferment" not exemption, falls apart when one think of that long, long campus project known as graduate studies. How long that may go on is anybody's guess! You get deferred now, you take graduate studies when you finish, and then you are 26. Nice soft life! And how much the effete snobs with white canvas shoes need that elbow rubbing with men of ordinary walk of life. I am sure the vast majority of Harvard students resent this spectacle of being forced into a position of seeking escape form the responsibilities forced on us in the gravest time of our history. The Senate-House rewrite version should prohibit all deferments at the end of the school year except in a few cases. Francis J. Bassett   Graduate School of Education