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...units are all over the map. The Army Specialized Training men in Winthrop and Leverett have been most active in College life. These students of Military Psychology and Foreign Areas and the Med Students in Boston will embrace Harvard's new school when it arrives in October. Called the AST reserve, this new bunch will be 17-year-olds, sent to college, housed and fed free, but with no pay until they get inducted. They will wear civilian clothes to classes, get some discipline, and take engineering courses...
Hunker labeled himself as a man to watch when he defeated Jack Benn, resident of Cambridge and former number one man on the Brown varsity. The scores were 3-6, 7-5, and 6-1. Shore trimmed Ed Twarog, AST, 6-3, 6-4; Lynch overwhelmed G. C. Fuller, 6-0, 6-0; and Mann took over Robert E. Stokes 6-2, 6-2 to round out the septet...
Kirkland and Eliot will virtually rejoin the House system in the near future, as plans are completed for the election of V-12 House Committees and participation in all phases of extra-curricular College life. The Navy-trainees, as well as the AST men, already play in the intramural softball league...
Along with this announcement Regimental Headquarters stated that Harvard will join the AST Reserve Program in September, in which qualified 17-year-old will receive academic instruction on an inactive status at government expense...
With their arrival from a number of STAR Units, one of which was at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, some of the incoming AST men will supplement the group already taking the Advanced Phase of Foreign Area and Language Study while the majority will embark upon the study of two courses newly added to the prescribed curriculum, Basic and Advanced Engineering. The other two units which have been here since June 1 are in Personnel Psychology and Medical Training...