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...Basic courses in Military Sciences will be offered this term to new Freshmen who are approaching draft age and desire a military background, it was announced by army ROTC Department of Harvard College...
...course is designed to give the student a basic introduction to such subjects as: infantry drill, military customs and discipline of the service, organization of the army, defense against chemical attack, first aid treatment of wounds, safe-guarding military information and other allied subjects. The department supplies uniforms and equipment used in the training of the students...
...President also heard, and at close range, from an even more potent voice: the Federal Council of Churches. Long ago the Federal Council had laid down its own basic propositions ("Six Pillars") for a "just and durable peace." Now, this late in the war, churchmen had grave doubts whether such a peace was in prospect. These doubts were solemnly stated to the President last week by: the ranking Episcopal bishop, Henry St. George Tucker; a prominent Methodist, Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam; and John Foster Dulles, international lawyer. After 40 minutes facing
Riding in jeeps, touring in tanks and taking the bumps of basic training have caused such an increase in pilonidal-cyst disorders that some doctors call them jeep disease. Cause: an infection of a congenital cyst at the base of a man's spine. Chief symptom: it hurts to sit down...
Usafi can supply servicemen with self-teaching texts in 15 major fields of high-school and basic college studies. Among the topics: physics, arithmetic, geometry, algebra, shorthand, automobile mechanics, bookkeeping. Beyond the Arctic Circle, in the Southwest Pacific and in other remote posts, where the rarity of mail deliveries makes correspondence study impracticable, servicemen lean heavily on the self-teachers...