Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson has been a big help to all of the Army ROTC students as well as to the Military Science Department by publishing promptly and in considerable detail many of the decisions of the War Department that were of tremendous importance to the students. Matters pertaining to enlistment in the Enlisted Reserve Corps, to the modifications in the ROTC program, and to the college training program, were published for the students and others concerned therein at an early date and were in many cases the only means the students had of getting this information of vital interest to them...
...students of the Field Artillery Unit and of the Quartermaster Unit of the Army ROTC, I am sure, will be tremendously interested in every edition of your coming weekly paper. I personally think that this paper will be of much help to the Department of Military Science. F. A. DONIAT Colonel...
Besides, there are 400 men in the Quartermaster ROTC unit, 500 in the Field Artillery (this total has been cut in half by graduations and Manpower Commission decisions), 300 in the Naval ROTC, 500 commissioned officers in the Medical School, and between 1000 and 1500 students (including those who left College in January) in the reserves...
Another development yesterday was the receipt of an order to report at Fort Devens next Tuesday by a Freshman who was not in the ROTC and who had not left College. This is apparently the first order of its kind to be received...
Representing the first of the Class of '43 graduates to be inducted, the ROTC men were graduated on January 31 without completing their military science courses. The premature induction was effected through the special provisions of the new Army Specialized Training Program. Regimental Commander John E. Sawhill 43 was the only one of the group to complete his full military science training without skipping any part of the course. Other members of the Class of '43 who did not accelerate will be allowed to continue in College until June, at which time they will be inducted...