Word: cadets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elden Sawhill '43 has been appointed Cadet Colonel of the Harvard ROTC Regiment, according to the Military Science Department announcement last night. He will officially take command on Monday when fall drill begins at Soldier's Field...
...Cadet C. W. Baumann: "Sir, I'm swimming in oil, what shall I do?" The tower: "Take off your shoes so you won't drown and come in for a landing...
...real fun in The Major and the Minor are Ginger's relations with the lovelorn cadets. Each of them tries to kiss her by showing her "how they took Sedan," then offering to show her how Paris fell. Cadet Wigton (Raymond Roe) takes Sedan with a fuzzily rapacious kiss, fails to take Paris. The other boys superimpose a line of their own on this basic strategy. Cadet Osborne (Frankie Thomas Jr.) turns out to be Masher Benchley's boy. Like his old man, he uses the Park Avenue technique, tells her that "you and I could make beautiful...
...matter of fact, so tricky was the defense devised by Harlow that without Eshmont it is probable that the Cadets would not have been able to make any ground at all through the Harvard line. With the possible exception of big Joe Martin, hard-driving fullback on last year's Cornell squad, none of the Cadet backs could solve the five, six and seven man line defenses which Harlow threw against them. And time and time again the Crimson linemen were able to charge through and break up the Pre-Flight plays before they could even get started...
...slow in also tapping the vast reservoir of manpower and officer-material in the colleges. And by the end of 1917, 2,500 men who were taking Naval training passed in a review of all the military forces at Harvard. Broken down into units this total included the Naval Cadet School for Ensigns. University undergraduates training for Ensigns' examinations, and the University Naval Radio School. Adding to the Navy men the 1,150 men training in the ROTC, a total of 3,650 men were at Harvard working for their commissions. Throughout the early part of 1918 and the summer...