Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While each branch of the service is formulating its program with regard to its interests alone, the Army has the misfortune of facing circumstances which inevitably make its a concentrated technical education, in which a man is a soldier before he is a student and where there is but little place for the liberal arts. The Army is facing a severe manpower shortage; it must plan to train as much officer material as possible in the shortest feasible time. Three months' basic training will be obligatory under its program: once at college, military students will follow a prescribed curriculum. Three...
...final decision on what Harvard men should do with their books, which were issued last week, will be made today, according to Marvin Ryan, member of the office's Boston branch...
...foreign theatre. Twelve to fifteen men may go to Headquarters Army Air Forces in Washington; other such groups will be assigned to organizations of the Flying Training Command and the Air Transport Command, and a few officers will go to stations under the Technical Training Command, which is the branch of their Forces operating the Statistical School and scores of other schools where technical ground-course training is given...
...Force from chaplain of the First Armored Division to chaplain of the First Armored Division to chaplain of the First Armored Division to chaplain of the First Armored Corps, and finally, as The Armored Force Chaplain, left an indelible impress upon the spiritual life of the Army's toughest branch...
...armed forces have made a three term year imperative. Faced with the prospect of teaching College, Summer School, a four-term Army school, and a three-term Navy School with the same faculty, now depleted by 30 percent, the College had to strike at its least useful branch. Closer integration of faculty as signment, of College planning and administration will result from the abolition of the Summer School...