Word: cadet
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With only 70 cadets, Harvard's AFROTC is one of the smallest in the country. About ten cadets are graduated yearly at a cost of $7,000 per graduate, which is nearly the average for all 300 schools in the program. The Air Force also trains the Harvard cadet in much the same manner as that of any other college; he marches as often, takes the same standard course material, and receives the same allowance as the cadet, at say, Alabama State...
...responsibility for carrying out the objectives and program of Leadership Lab which are carefully spelled out in Air Force manuals, lies mainly in the hands of the cadets themselves. One of the main reasons for having Leadership Lab at all, in fact, is to give upperclassmen a practice run in Air Force bureaucracy. Peter Pignone '63, the Cadet Commander, has a staff of advanced corps cadets, each of whom has a specific place and function in the hierarchy. One cadet draws up a plan of events or "operations," another runs the athletic program, a third keeps data on merits, demerits...
...dash, the Crimson sprint star broke the Heptagonal and field house records, edging Cadet Joe Almaguer in 6.1 seconds, just 1/10 of a second off the world indoor record. In the hurdles, Awori ran his fourth race of the day but still managed to tie the Heps record with a time of 7.4 seconds...
...time the relays approached, Army had already clinched the meet. Yet the Crimson victories in the last two events at least dimmed the luster of the Cadet performance...
...Manhattan luncheon, West Point Cadet Colin Kelly III, 22, son of World War II's Distinguished Service Cross-winning air hero, heard Dwight Eisenhower recount how Franklin D. Roosevelt requested that some future President appoint the hero's son, then an infant of 18 months, to West Point as a tribute to his father's bravery. Yet when he offered the young man a presidential appointment, continued Ike, young Kelly politely declined the favor: "Thank you very much -I'll earn it myself." "Which he did," said Ike. After lunch, the old soldier joined Kelly...