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...compulsory. Jenkins added, however, that "membership in the club is favored by the Navy officers. It shows your office qualities in that you are looking out for the interest of the group." He said that non-membership is looked upon as the "same as not going to drill." "Actually," noted Jenkins, "membership is voluntary only up to the point where you join the unit...
...recruit in ten without a fourth-grade education, the U.S. Army announced a program of "transitional training" at seven training centers to give G.I.s book learning with their bayonet drill. The program will teach reading, writing, arithmetic and citizenship, will take two to four weeks depending on how fast recruits pick up what they missed in school...
...University, in agreement with the highest military planners, has supported the ROTC units because it has believed one of a university's duties is to provide liberally educated men for wartime leadership. In keeping with this philosophy, course credits and drill fields have been offered the three ROTC units...
...items are perfect jewels, or course. A few are trivial, a few fail stylistically, at least in sports, and the poems are generally unsuccessful. But the first rate predominates--the title piece, "Farewell, My Lovely," "The Morning of the Day They Did It," "Air Raid Drill," and "Death of a Pig," for instance, are as fine as almost anything White has written...
...drill will mark the first time that an eastern band has attempted such a stunt, although it is reported that one of the mid-western bands did it several years ago . It was conceived by Manager Alan S. Novick '55, Arnold H. Aronson '56 and Rogers, who thought up the details of the drill itself...