Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Proposing to fill 112 positions still open in the Harvard Naval ROTC complement, Captain Carroll T. Bonney, U.S.N., Professor of Naval Science and Tactics, announced yesterday provisions of the new Holloway plan for midshipmen and plans for admitting veterans to the advanced courses of his department. Fifty percent of the 108 men enrolled in the unit this term are ex-servicemen...
Captain Carroll T. Bonney, U. S. Navy, became the commanding officer of the University Naval ROTC program yesterday when he assumed the post left vacant by the retiring Captain C. H. J. Keppler...
...Naval ROTC equipment, including guns, a rifle range, and submarine-attack teaching device, is being moved into two small buildings behind the Biological Laboratories, the Radio Research Laboratory and the Test Laboratory. Both of these have been used in special war work...
...main attractions of the ROTC, which has always helped to swell the ranks since the College unit was founded shortly after the first World War, has fallen victim to progress in the art of war. "In the 'piping days of peace' the unit was a horse drawn outfit which had a polo team; but, because the horse has ceased to be important or used in war, the team no longer exists. Thus, many 'little soldiers' no longer sign up," said McClure. But he emphasized that the unit will attempt to develop esprit de corps by many other social functions...
During the war, College ROTC dwindled to a mere taken unit of about 20 men from its peak enrollment in 1941 of over 500. Over 2.000 former members of ROTC served in the war, with several reaching the rank of full colonel...