Word: meds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army units are all over the map. The Army Specialized Training men in Winthrop and Leverett have been most active in College life. These students of Military Psychology and Foreign Areas and the Med Students in Boston will embrace Harvard's new school when it arrives in October. Called the AST reserve, this new bunch will be 17-year-olds, sent to college, housed and fed free, but with no pay until they get inducted. They will wear civilian clothes to classes, get some discipline, and take engineering courses...
...contingent of 160 V-12ers will go to work at Harvard Medical School today, having reported at Eliot House Thursday with the College V-12 men. Also at the Med School will be 325 Army men designated as Company B of the Army Specialized Training Unit at the University, Company A being the group stationed in Leverett House...
Most of the students were formerly on inactive duty as 2nd Lieutenants of the reserve but resigned their commissions like the Navy men to go on active duty. The unit includes members of all classes at the Med School...
Putting an end to the speculations about uniforms word has been posted that the first issues will be made today. All general V-12 and pre-med students are to receive seamen's whites and blues as outlined in their first orders. Members of the NROTC Unit, which is to maintain its distinctive identity throughout the program, will receive, in addition to the dress blues now held, two khaki summer working uniforms, dress whites, and midshipman undress whites. Shoulder boards for the khakis and whites are not authorized at present, nor is the wearing of brown-or white shoes with...
Captain Magruder's "Miscellaneous" command will include such groups as the Soil Engineers now studying airport construction. As head of Army personnel at the Med School, Captain Fair-banks will take care of such administrative duties as leaves, discipline, and any military training...