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Several clerical errors at the source produced a certain amount of confusion and surprise among ERC men who had expected no orders yesterday. A large number of Mil Sci 2 men received orders from the Command, but the Department, checking immediately, pointed out the error and had the orders straightened out. The same thing happened to several pre-medical students and others deferred for curricular reasons, but no policy change was involved in any case...
After a month of waiting, the unassigned group of the Harvard ERC contingent has finally received its orders to report on March 11 at Fort Devens. Arriving late yesterday morning at the War Service Information Bureau, they will be available for students who want to call for them today, although they will be mailed out immediately to others, Elliott Perkins '23, director of the Bureau, announced yesterday...
Other members of the ERC, who live outside the First Corps Area and who did not ask to be sent to Devens for placement, will receive their orders from home Commands. The papers have already been sent to these by the First Service Command, which is handling all the orders for the College, and will probably be sent out as soon as the Home Command receives them...
...liberal arts. And although Army officials have expressed the opinion that general education is of little or no value in the training of officers, the Navy has gone to the colleges almost exclusively for its commissioned personnel. The interest of the Army itself through its ROTC and ERC programs, and the preponderance of college men in its Officer Candidate Schools are evidences that it too sees the officer as something more than a military machine turned out in 90 days at OCS. Yet in the rush to satisfy the officer and technician needs of an 8,000,000-man army...
Special groups take precedence over the unassigned ERC. Included in these groups are the meteorologists, the Army's specialized training schools, and men who have enlisted in order to join a certain unit. All these must be taken care of and sent to Fort Devens before the regular ERC can be taken care...