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Wednesday afternoon 800 officers of the Naval Training Schools at Harvard, including the 500 who will graduate this morning, participated in their final drill on Soldiers Field as they were reviewed for the first time by Captain George N. Barker, commanding officer of the Harvard Training Schools...
...official reviewing party will be composed of President Conant, Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14, Major General Sherman Miles, Commanding General' of the First Corps Area; Rear Admiral William T. Tarrant, Commandant of the First Naval District; Colonel Francis Doniat, commanding officer of the Army R.O.T.C. unit; Captain George N. Barker, commanding officer of the Navy R.O.T.C. unit; members of the Board of Overseers; and other military and civilian dignitaries...
Students enrolled in Naval Science are now required to report four days a week to a newly-instituted Naval physical training program, including jiu jitsu, boxing, wrestling, road work, swimming, and calisthenics, according to an official order recently issued by Captain George N. Barker...
...ingredients. First of all, there is Don Ameche, who plays the role of a hardboiled American reporter in London during the great German air bombardment of September, 1940. He is all that Hollywood expects a foreign correspondent to be--which is more like a side-show barker than anything else. And although to some people his jowls and teeth make him look like a Walt Disney rabbit, especially when he smiles, he can probably be considered handsome in the bargain. Then there is Joan Bennett, who is horribly cast as a well-bred English girl, and who meets the Rabbit...
Navy Plan. But the Navy, like the Army, wants well-educated men most, refuses to set up a rigid schedule for the colleges. The Navy's plan, explained Joseph W. Barker, is to enlist 17-to-19-year-old students who will take a comprehensive examination after three semesters. If he passes the Navy's test, as well as his college exams, a student can go into Naval aviation at the end of his second year, or, if he elects engineering or other specialized work, can continue his course, get his degree, then his commission. The Navy wants...