Word: cadets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corps emphasizes the necessity of a revised system of testing its candidates for cadet posts, for the exam that has been used in the past was so easy that 89 out of the 90 Harvard men who took it passed with flying colors. It consisted mainly of choice questions, forcing the perplexed undergraduate to decide whether two times three equals five or seven. It is hoped that this new examination will be a fairer measure of intelligence, but whether it is used as a standard test depends mainly on the results of Monday night. Failure in it will...
...spoke English and had spent many years in the U.S. They were former waiters, machine-tool workers, painters, chauffeurs, butlers. One was a naturalized U.S. citizen, the youngest, 22-year-old Herbert Haupt, was U.S.-born. He had gone through Chicago's public schools, had been a cadet officer in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Most were in their late 30s. All had been active in the German-American Bund. In the years 1939-41 they had returned to Germany, aided by German diplomats and Nazi funds. Back in Germany they had volunteered or been drafted into training...
...Pilot, One Year. Training takes time. The rule for a superior air force is that an aviation cadet has to have nine months of instruction before he can wear wings, three more months of tactical seasoning before he may fight abroad...
...same time, he announced that the Army Air Corps was anxious to use the present Freshman Class as "intellectual guinea pigs" for the purpose of standardizing its qualifying examination on college Freshmen and also to learn the relative number of college students who can qualify for Aviation Cadet training. The examination will take three hours, and will take place some time be- tween July 5 and 10. Notice of the exact date and time will be printed in the CRIMSON...
...student prefers to try for V-5, aviation cadet training leading to flying officer's commissions, he may do so instead of trying for V-7 and deck or engineering officer's commissions...