Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...future field artillery officers, of the Class of '45, who will fill the shoes of one-time ROTC men now serving on the battlefronts, received the anxiously awaited "promotions" two months ahead of the expected date. Although this class will not begin its third year work until next semester, and will have to wait for next spring's drills to assume their duties as sergeants, the precedent-breaking early notification will serve to clarify their military status, a fact which takes on added importance now that the 18-19 draft bill...
Amid the shufflings and reshufflings that have marked the search for an efficient officer procurement plan, the ROTC system stands essentially unchanged. This anachronism persists because no logical change short of total suspension is possible. Designed to maintain a reservoir of officers for our peace-time army, and to furnish a nucleus for rapid expansion in case of war, the ROTC today contradicts its own existence...
...still the ROTC system continues, intensifies, and plans for the indefinite future. The total effect is one of confusion to the individual and an overall diffusion of energy. There is a fundamental friction between the military habit of mind, and the approach to thought and action which a liberal college education aims to develop. The one is obedience and a stifling of the individual for practical expedience; the other is experiment, trial and error growth, necessarily inefficient in the short run. The student who tries to combine the two in an ever more divergent path finds himself in a continual...
...member of the Class of 1934 and a graduate of the Law School, Lieut, Campbell worked with the aircraft squadron when the carrier went down before Japanese torpedo fire in the Battle of the Solomons. The subject of his talk was not revealed by ROTC officers last night, but it was understood to be of an instructive nature. Before the meeting, Lieut, Campbell will be the guest at diner of Captain George N. Barker, professor of Naval Science and Tactics, and Edward W. Garrison '43, president of the Naval Society...
With West Point Cadets unable to participate in the pre-game ceremonies tomorrow, members of Harvard's military organization who are going to take their place, have been busy with preparations and yesterday marched from the Yard led by the massed battalions of the ROTC...