Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friday, April 6, 1917, did not find the College either startled or unprepared. Since January of the previous year, over a thousand undergraduates in high-collared uniforms and campaign hats had been preparing for this moment, first in the unofficial and no-credit Harvard Regiment, and later in the ROTC which was set up during the summer...
...original unit was drawn up purely on a voluntary basis, and bayonets, belts, and rifles "of the 1898 Springfield model" were provided by the government. Drills were held outdoors until winter necessitated the use of the old Hemingway Gymnasium and the baseball cage. With the inauguration of the official ROTC, a half-course known as Military Science and Tactics, training at Harvard went on a more official basis with commission in the reserve awaiting those who had satisfactory records...
...early months of 1917 were occupied with a series of heated drives among the student body to fill the quota of men in ROTC demanded by the War Department. Under the direction of Captain Cordier, the new regiment had barely begun its intensified training when the war with Germany broke...
News from Washington in the early days on the war pointed toward the formation of Officers' Training Camps at existing army bases, and the members of the ROTC spent a long and anxious week pondering their fate. Finally the War Department announced that ROTC training at Harvard would be given at least at the summer camp. Most of the men over 20 years old in the unit left to train in officers' camps of the Plattsburg type, while younger men continued to train at College...
...training passed in a review of all the military forces at Harvard. Broken down into units this total included the Naval Cadet School for Ensigns. University undergraduates training for Ensigns' examinations, and the University Naval Radio School. Adding to the Navy men the 1,150 men training in the ROTC, a total of 3,650 men were at Harvard working for their commissions. Throughout the early part of 1918 and the summer. Undergraduates continued to drill in the ROTC, at the flying ranges in Wakefield, and the manoeuvers grounds at Fresh Pond...