Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reviewing party entered. After they had inspected the ranks drawn up on the football field, Major, General Sherman Miles, commandant of the First Service Command, presented swards to eight deserving ROTC men and watched the battalions pass on in review from the reviewing stand on the east side of the Stadium...
Passing through Johnson Gate this afternoon, the cadets of the ROTC will be approaching the end of a long march, and Mil Sci as a course and institution will be nearing the finale of 27 years of service. It was in the fall of 1916 that the first Army class in Military Science and Tactics was held here; since that time the unit has plugged ahead through rough times, often faltering, sometimes erring, but turning out many efficient Field Artillery officers on the way. Born as a quick trainer for the last war, the ROTC has become a national fact...
America pleased to enter World War I soon after the start of the first ROTC, and the College shifted en masse into a training camp--everyone but a few pitied physical and under-age ineligibles was in ranks. The ROTC was popular then. But through the tinfoil twenties and bitter thirties it took fortitude and the promise of a uniform and polo to make men endure the westernunioning taunts of friends. When war came there was an increase in applications. And in the emergency the Harvard ROTC has trained, often by accelerated programs, a large number of men, many...
With the Harvard ROTC drawn up for review this afternoon, eight men, six from the undergraduate Field Artillery unit and two from the Busy School's Quartermaster Corps, will receive awards for outstanding performance during the past year...
...ROTC students will commence falling in at 1:30 in front of Widener, and after marching down to the Stadium at 2:30, they will await the entrance of the reviewing party. With QM and FA battalions standing at present arms while Ruffles and The Star Spangled Banner are being played, the party will enter the Stadium and then proceed on an inspection of the troops...