Word: rotc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miller's ironic letter in Thursday's CRIMSON succeeded so well in satirizing the usual ROTC-CRIMSON attitude toward the National Student League that we have little to add on that point. But as a matter of interest, many of your readers will no doubt be surprised to know that the use of sterilization as a weapon against political dissenters is a serious threat, if not an actual fact, at present in Germany. For this reason we believe Mr. Miller's letter, though an excellent job, wad ill-advised in choosing sterilization as the reductie ad absurdum of reactionary terrorism...
Beginning early in March the matches by mail will start with other ROTC units at the University of Wisconsin, Princeton, Virginia Military Institute, and Purdue...
...country has never been prepared for any of its wars, not even for the last one. In the emergency of war the reserve army, headed by trained officers of the ROTC, would be quickly and efficiently mobilized for action...
...West Point men are fully trained for the profession of a soldier, acquiring there a complete college education. Their graduates become second lieutenants in the regular army, and the usual course is active military service. ROTC men, on the other hand, are commissioned in the reserve army. Military service in the time of peace rests entirely with the graduate, but if he wishes he may work and advance in the army. The ROTC is merely a skeleton of an emergency group, while the regular army is a permanent and active organization...