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Bringing the number of captains at Shannon Hall to four, Captain Russell N. Fairbanks, FA, instructor of Mil Sci 1, was promoted Saturday to his present rank from that of First Lieutenant. Fairbanks received his commission through the ROTC here after attending summer camp in 1941. He has served here as an instructor since last summer...
...Wood spent last Tuesday and Wednesday inspecting the Yale FA ROTC unit. Reports of neither inspection have been made public...
Admiral Theobald was the highest ranking naval officer present, while Colonel William S. Wood, FA, represented the army in the reviewing party. John W. Farley, chairman of the College's visiting committee; Dean Chase, representing University President James B. Conant, Dean Hanford; Dean Buck; Charles Francis Adams, President of the Board of Overseers; and Ralph Lowell, President of the Harvard Club of Boston, headed the civilian section of the party...
...better yet was the way the Americans fought when they got there. They had no Dunkirk to avenge, but they did have a Faïd, an El Guettar, and a Fondouk. A correspondent who had written of their deficiencies on those earlier battlefields wrote now: "Experienced units of the II Corps look equal to the best British forces...
...ROTC students will commence falling in at 1:30 in front of Widener, and after marching down to the Stadium at 2:30, they will await the entrance of the reviewing party. With QM and FA battalions standing at present arms while Ruffles and The Star Spangled Banner are being played, the party will enter the Stadium and then proceed on an inspection of the troops...