Word: cadets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that it has acquainted Harvard with the process of applying for appointment as an Aviation Cadet, the Air Corps will not necessarily send an examining board to Cambridge again, but any who may decide to join up subsequently must contact the regular recruiting officers...
...recognizing that the Navy V-1 program and the Army Aviation Cadet and Enlisted Reserve Corps plans give students the opportunity for a brief college education, President Conant round "one inherent weakness" in "the fact that educational opportunity is still far from an accomplished fact." Feeling that accident of birth too greatly affect education, and assuming that "there are large numbers of potential officers in each age group who do not now enter college," he stated a desire to keep the most promising students in school and to send them on to college...
...including President Conant, Admiral Tarrant, General Erickson, Chairman Robert H. Hollowell of the Overseers Visiting Committee, and other military and civilian dignitaries left its stand near the baseball grandstand and marched double file to the left of the units which were drawn up at attention. As the cadet officers, with sabres drawn, gave the order "Eyes right," the reviewing party walked the entire length of the ranks for the inspection, and then diagonally back across the field to their seats...
...command "Press in review," given by Cadet Colonel James G. Hayes. Regimental Commander of the Army ROTC, the long times of field artillerymen. Quartermasters, Naval Reservists and Naval Supply units moved out of their positions. The band struck up the field artillery "Caisson Song" as the massed batteries paraded across the field toward the spectators, then wheeled to the left to pass before the reviewing stand. The 3000 onlookers stoop up in the stands to view the massed columns, with flag dipped and eyes right, pass before the reviewing stand
...evenings laughs with his rapid-fire banter in the well-known Bob Hope fashion. Continuing in a light, though military vein, there will be brief non-official, non-technical talks by Lieutenant-Commander T. A. Collins, former Marine flier who is now senior member of the Naval Aviation Cadet Selection Board of the First Naval District, and Captain William F. Upton Jr., director of morale and recreation at Camp Edwards...