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sarv to steer the new members of the unit into their proper places in line. In the classroom the members of this year's graduating class, as sophomores, studied the automatic rifle. musketry, scouting and patrolling. and combat principles of the riAe squad and section. Juniors! New outfits. New responsibilities-checking r-ifle positions. coaching privates in the manual of arms, and guiding the lines as they swept across Hoffa Field on parade. There was the added impetus of an occasional pay check to encourage study and to compensate for the task of mapping the campus. The machine gun seemed a rather harmless but interesting plaything until the perplexing problems of fire distribution, fire orders, direct and indirect laying were con- fronted. These problems were duplicated in the study of the howitzer weapons Summer Camp-awakening to the sound of a bugle marching to the rifle pits at 6.00 A.M standing in the sun at parade rest while ceremonies were being performed shrinking from pursuit planes as they swept close to the ground at night. At the end-honors bars and rifle and pistol medals Then Seniors-members of the Class of 1936 in full authority over a battalion. a company, or a platoon, with opportunities for giving commands. the hope of every soldier. Classroom work consisted of the study of military law, historical battles. and more combat principles. In the spring the inspector from Corps Headquarters made his annual inspection. Sponsors were presented to their respective THOMAS REED HOLMES Cap/a;n. Infantry units and the military Field Day was held. Then, Com- mencement-spotless uniforms under academic robes-and a well-earned commission CHARLES E_ READ Captain Adju/ant WILLIAM W, BRATTON Lieu/.nan/-Colond CHARLES R. DANEKER Major MAURICE ROBERTS Cap/a;n Adjutant