Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paid men who are on active duty as full-time soldiers in a fighting army--not for a few Harvard men who spend a few hours a week in light drill. It is a sad commentary on the Harvard student body as a whole and on the entire ROTC setup, that these same small tight-fisted children are the future officers of our Army...
Still less deserving of respect are those who go to the extent of removing the ROTC insignia from their collars and the VERITAS shields from their overseas caps. If my small knowledge of military law is at all accurate, the men in the latter group are guilty of a courtmartial offence, namely that of wearing a uniform to which they are not entitled...
Members of Harvard's ROTC who drill twice a week and often find themselves tied up in knots while trying to march correctly, were told by Captain Andrew Marshall, Jr. '34 that all it took to march was a little rhythm. "We were all born with it," Captain Marshall said, "but lost it after three weeks at Harvard...
...future shavetails received a taste of broken sleeping and mosquitos as they stood their own night watch in one-hour shifts. Captain James M. Sampson '35 commanded the group, and Col. Francis A. Doniat, head of the Harvard ROTC, Lt. Col. George Connor, and Capt. Alden Eames were also present for part of the trip...
Instructor in "cad warfare" for the British Commandos, Bert "Yank" Levy, veteran of every war or revolution since 1911, spoke on his work to a mixed gathering of the Naval Supply Corps, Harvard ROTC, and students on Monday in the Stadium...