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...hundred citizens of Cambridge are undergoing training as Auxillary Police, attending lectures in Sanders Theatre and drilling in Memorial Hall. Together with 50 members of the University's own police course, they are being instructed in infantry drill by students in the R.O.T.C. Regiment under the command of Cadet Colonel James G. Hayes...
...Nininger was a gentle boy, not one with an urge for heroics. Sandy was a friend of beauty. He loved poetry: his father once caught him reading Baudelaire in French, and chided him for it. He wrote secretly. He loved music: at West Point he hated the bleak life-drill, drill, drill-and tried to relieve it by organizing concerts. Last May he persuaded Helen Jepson to give a Sunday afternoon recital at the Academy. When he graduated last June he remarked that the first thing he wanted to do with his new pay was to buy a gramophone...
...Navy will open the schools by May 1 and admit 2,500 men a month. Students will get a three-months' course of 1) physical toughening, including ditchdigging, jujitsu, rough-&-tumble fighting and learning to march 40 miles a day, 2) Naval history and customs, 3) military drill and seamanship. 4) communications and ordnance. Then the students will go on to nine months of flight training in Navy flying schools...
Bugaboo of college basketball teams this year is not Purdue, Indiana or Wisconsin, but a team of sailors from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. Last week, before 5,000 screaming trainees who packed the Station's brand-new drill hall, they swamped Northwestern, 47-to-38, for their 14th victory in 16 starts...
...course Tues. & Thurs. 7:30-9:30 5, Tuesday, Jan. 6 Lesley School, Ererett Street Cambridge Red Cross, 18 Brattle Street, Ellot 7800 Instructors' Course Enrollment limited Tues., & Wed., Thurs., & Fri., 1-5 2, Tuesday, Jan. 18 Cambridge Electric Light Company Cambridge Red Cross Motor Transports (Motor mechanics, shelter drill, convoy driving) Anyone for both regular and emergency driving--advanced registration necessary. Mon. & Wed., 7:30-9:30 (Another course will begin as soon as there is sufficient demand.) 3, Monday, Jan. 5 53, Church Street Cambridge Red Cross Water Safety (Life saving) Anyone For men: Tuesday...