Word: officership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...full-scale reevaluation of ROTC, two Dartmouth professors assert that with advancing technology, the concept of the trained reserve, hastily mobilized, citizen army is outmoded; the only realistic alternative now is a professional armed force in being, obviously necessitating good officers. Coupled with Professor Samuel Huntington's idea of officership as a profession, a policy of high-calibre training for college men to make them able officers becomes a necessity...
...Franco's close friend and has family ties with Don Juan. The duke, a member of the Spanish general staff, will have charge of a large staff of tutors, mostly from the Spanish naval college, who will instruct Juanito in military science, mathematics and history, prepare him for officership in the Spanish navy...
Members of last year's senior class rated 225 undergraduate activities, each listed with respect to officership, membership, and other sub-categories. The survey, conducted by James S. Davie, sociaologist in Yale's Department of Health, showed these to be the ten most desired positions: 1) football captain, 2) editor of the Yale Daily News, 3) chairman of the junior prom, 4) membership in Skull and Bones, 5) basketball captain, 6) membership in the Whiffenpoofs singing organization, 7) chairman of WYBC, 8) tie between hockey captain and swimming captain, 10) president of Phi Beta Kappa...