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Show STUDENTS EXEMPT UNDER CONDITIONS BOSTON, Dec 21. Engineering students stu-dents who have good records will be exempt ex-empt from the draft if they enlist in the engineer reserve corps, President Richard C. Maclaurln of Massachusetts Institute of Technology told the students today. A recent communication from the war department, he said, explained that the student so enlisting would be placed on the inactive list and allowed to complete his college course. At graduation lie would be given the option of being called into the active service under his enlistment enlist-ment and being assigned to some of the engineering branches of the army, or of being immediately discharged and taking his place again among those subject to service under the draft law. |