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...ablest athletic coaches and have launched the most intensive three-month sport program ever undertaken in the U.S. In their curriculum, devised and supervised by onetime Annapolis Football Coach Tom Hamilton, are ten compulsory sports: football, basketball, soccer, wrestling, boxing, tumbling, swimming, track, hand-to-hand, engineering (which means ditch-digging, wood-chopping and other manual labor...
...track of the Olympic Games but a specialty called military track. Its main event, the 60-yd. obstacle run, is the most grueling thing in the preflight program. Its 25 obstacles include: a ten-foot wall, a wide trap of knee-deep sand, a maze, a ditch that must be jumped and another (hedge-bound) that cannot be jumped, a long wooden tube through which cadets must crawl, a towering pile of loose logs that shift underfoot, a timber "jungle trap" arranged in a 20-ft. cube. By the time a cadet is ready to graduate, he must be able...
...should be straight documentary or straight Hollywood, Producer Walter Wanger made it both. Somehow he manages to give a fairly coherent idea of what it is like to be an R.A.F. pursuit pilot, though hampered by a ragged plot and the fact that, whenever a convenient shell crater or ditch appears, someone is sure to pop into it for a long, dull, heart-to-heart talk...
Declaring that he felt he was safer outside the jail than in, James, who was arrested on a charge of libel of President Roosevelt, remarked "I told the official that I am sane, and would fight any commitment to the last ditch...
...Harvard education in the last war meant drilling, ditch-jumping, and bayonet practice. "Business as usual" was still an uncoined phrase, but people spoke of English and philosophy and even economics and government as unpatriotic luxuries. When this war came, increasing mechanization meant that Harvard could not again become a training camp, and students turned to specialized technical courses, or waited for the draft to catch up with them. Preparing the University for war seemed to mean turning it into a trade school. For immediate usefulness the broad highway to learning looked suspiciously like a blind alley...