Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...College students, regardless of class, are now eligible for appointment to the Naval ROTC under its newly instituted scholarship plan, according to an announcement yesterday by Captain Carroll T. Bonney, U.S.N., professor of Naval Science and Tactics...
Required of each student will be one Naval science course each term. Uniforms will be issued for wear at drill periods and on summer cruises...
Students should apply at once, Captain Bonney emphasized, as applications must be in the hands of the Naval Section, College Entrance Examination Board, Box 709, Princeton, New Jersey, by Tuesday, December 17. Detailed information and application balks may be obtained from the professor of Naval Science, 28 Divinity Place, or from Richard M. Gummere, chairman of the Committee on Admissions, in 17 University Hall...
Faculty and administration men admit the flaws in the policy, grant that fight training and military tactics and naval gunnery are "academic subjects" by only the remotest stretch of the imagination, that history and literature concentrators who are hustled out of college by the credits they received for Army training in mathematics and electronics have not quite achieved their educational goals. But they maintain the position that the sacrifice of a few terms of those men's careers is the lesser of two evils, a necessary method f making room for other worthy suitors for Harvard's opportunities...
...mentioned a new test being prepared for the Navy "to pick 5,000 candidates for Annapolis." Although the Board does prepare the Naval Academy Entrance Examinations, the test referred to is not for candidates for Annapolis. It is the Navy College Aptitude Test to be used as a qualifying examination for the Naval R.O.T.C. and Naval Aviation College Program...