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...Although drill is conducted on standards of regimentation and discipline, many of the classes are conducted like normal college sections. Sergeants, while not speaking like English professors, are extremely able to get their material across in their own peculiar language. It is very Army. And the teaching officers, although they have different standards than a Philosophy lecturer, know the West Point gospel well. The unit's military personnel tries to turn out soldiers. The University is interested in scholars. Everyone in the corps is aware of the difference. It is accepted just as the uniforms...
...proposed program is in part an attempt to correct a weakness in the present reserve system. Under the existing plan, draftees are required to remain in reserve status for a period of six years, following two years' service. However, under this law there is no provision for weekly drill participation. As a result, those participating are merely names in paper units...
...advanced phase of ROTC, Air Science 3 and 4, in the next three terms. Students will take two courses in the next two terms, and finish with a single course in the spring of 1957. They will probably be able to make up the two hours per week of drill required for all reservists by participating in Army or Navy ROTC drill periods...
...meets Louise, an exotic fragment of brunette poetry. Over cocktails, it turns out that her beefy husband is Tom's dentist. Tom and Louise lark off for a weekend together and get found out. In one of the more bloodcurdling scenes in recent fiction, the cuckolded dentist, drill in hand, hovers over Tom ready to extract a moment of truth...
Every time the train halted at a small town, a horde of black jerseys would descend and startle the natives with a quick signal and passing drill. Between stops, the players would do calisthenics in the aisles, and if the train broke down, they would dash outside to do wind sprints while repairs were being made...