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Yesterday's workout consisted of a short scrimmage and defensive drill...
...older boys by forming their own Junior Commandos, influenced by the comic strips' "Colonel Orphan Annie," currently leading her commandos against enemy agents. At Detroit's Boys Club playground more than 100 youngsters, dressed in shorts, sneakers and tin helmets, and carrying wooden guns, went through commando drill...
Under the program which has been in force during the summer all undergraduates, unless specifically excused, have been expected to exercise four times each week. At least two of these periods have been, by requirement, conditioning classes, unless the student participates in House sports, Mil Sci drill, or an organized team sport...
...rather with the students themselves. I refer to the actions of a number of the Mil Sci men, whose respect for the United States Army and for the uniform of the Army is so small as to lead them to don those same uniforms, issued to them for drill purposes only, on weekend evenings for the sole purpose of obtaining half-price admission to the Boston theatres. The theatres have adopted the low admission price as a service and a favor to the low-paid men who are on active duty as full-time soldiers in a fighting army...
...Government provided some blueprints: a 90-hour pre-induction course in high schools and colleges to train the specialists the Army needs; preflight aviation courses for high-school boys; hard drill in every school on mathematics and physics. But college presidents got no answer to their biggest question: how much longer would they be able to keep their students and keep open their colleges...