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...materials on a large scale to a European battlefront." The other was honest General George Marshall, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army and no showy talker. At West Point's graduation exercises he departed from pleasantries and the usual sermon on the honor of the Cadet Corps to hammer a few global-war tacks. Said he: "Today we find American soldiers throughout the Pacific, in Burma, China and India. They have wintered in Greenland and Iceland...
...reclassified 3-A as his mother's sole support. Playing ball for a reported $30,000 a year, he had said he wanted to play one more year, to end his mother's financial worries. Last week he passed his exams as a Naval Aviation cadet. The selection board said that in the normal course of things he would probably not be inducted till the ball season ends...
...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...
...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