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...Charleston campus etched with palmettos, amid yellow Moorish buildings, some 1,900 young men in oldfashioned, ball-buttoned, long-tailed military uniforms will this week pass in review before South Carolina's Governor Richard Jefferies. The Citadel, known also as the Military College of South Carolina, which vies with Virginia Military Institute for second rank (after Annapolis and West Point) among U.S. military academies, will be 100 years...
...occasion Governor Jefferies will enrich the school's lavish regimental colors with a new set of eight battle-streamers marking the participation of Citadel men in as many operations in the Civil War. The school is also proud of a streamer (added in 1939) embroidered "Confederate States Army," for The Citadel is the nation's stanchest stronghold of the Grey traditions...
...staff of Stars & Stripes operates out of three rented rooms in the cavernous interior of the London Times citadel off the Thames embankment. The presses of the Thunderer now print Stars & Stripes -much to the Times's befuddlement. Like all U.S. journalists, S & Sers work in their shirtsleeves. They eat coatless in the austere Times restaurant. Such indecorum puzzles Times newsmen...
...Citadel Undermanned...
Somervell's words, "Every classroom is a citadel," sound good as a battle cry. But where are the schools to get teachers to train youth, to say nothing of the impossibility of supplying all schools with the equipment necessary to teach specialized classes for industrial workers, Army Air Force flyers and ground...