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America pleased to enter World War I soon after the start of the first ROTC, and the College shifted en masse into a training camp--everyone but a few pitied physical and under-age ineligibles was in ranks. The ROTC was popular then. But through the tinfoil twenties and bitter thirties it took fortitude and the promise of a uniform and polo to make men endure the westernunioning taunts of friends. When war came there was an increase in applications. And in the emergency the Harvard ROTC has trained, often by accelerated programs, a large number of men, many...
Frontier Life. In Mankota, Sask., a steer in a cattle car poked a horn through the car's slats, caught up a switch lamp en route, baffled the engineer by swinging red and green signals all the way to Moose...
...week, while Rommel had his head and shoulders in the Mareth Line, he had tried to kick the U.S. forces away from his rear. There in the mountains with the strange names (Djebel Berda, Djebel Chemsi, Djebel en Nedjilet) American troops had fought savagely and well to keep unrelenting pressure on the enemy. The fighting on Djebel el Kreroua was typical...
...Lice, which may cause restlessness and lack of appetite, can be killed by oily dips. Lime and sulfur solution controls mange. In each case, the whole pig must be dipped. Usual system is to make him swim through a dip 40 or more inches deep, duck his head somewhere en route...
...En route to Fort Pitt, Salathiel met a white girl and, after passing the day alone with her in the forest, was hastily mar ried to her by a friendly preacher. Almost immediately they were separated, for en try into bristling Fort Pitt was not for everyone. Inside the fort, Salathiel met the commandant Captain Ecuyer, became his valet and bodyguard. From the Cap tain he learned discipline, borrowed such books as Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Richard son's Clarissa Harlowe...