Purpose of Military Department:
Teach Drill, Leadership, Command
By BOB ROUNDS
Emerald Reporter
Oregon’s military department
stresses that the purpose of their
eurriculum is to teach “drill, leader
ship and exercise of command.”
Each basic student attends two
class periods and one hour of drill
per week. Emphasis is placed upon
the fact that the purpose of the
department is not to teach drill and
other subjects of purely military
nature, but classwork which is of
general interest and which may
apply to military requirements.
The military department is one
of the largest on campus—attend
ing classes are 1156 cadets; there
is a staff of 32, an inventory of
over $250,000 which includes 900
jrifles and 1400 uniforms.
Basic Movements
The basic cadets, freshmen and
sophomores, usually have no rating,
and are taught the basic move
ments of drill and the manual of
arms.
In addition to the regular drill
period, the cadet may enter either
the drill team or the ROTC band.
The drill team is trained to execute
intricate movements not ordinarily
used in marching. Combined with
the band, they are used in parades,
reviews and other special functions
»f the department. The band also
provides music for reviews during
the regular weekly drill periods.
During the year Scabbard and
Blade, military honorary, sponsors
the Military Ball, at which the
“Little Colonel” is presented.
Cadets March
Each spring’, on Armed Forces
day, the entire cadet unit marches
in the Armed Forces day parade
through downtown Eugene.
Another special activity of the
©adets is Scabbard and Blade,
whose members are advanced ca
dets of superior ability in both mili
tary and general subjects.
The faculty of the department
are volunteers for assignment to
cadet teaching, and are required to
take an intensive course in teach
ing over a six week period before
beginning their work in the depart
ment.
All officers on the staff must be
approved by President H. K. New
bum after consideration of a trans
cript of their service records. All
enlisted men are approved by Col.
E. L. Bruns, head of the Military
department, under the same condi
tions.
The Academic Side
The academic side of ROTC is
emphasized by the faculty as being
more important than drill. During
the two basic years, academic work
accounts for 70 percent of the stu
dent's grade, and in the advanced
years 80 percent.
Col. Bruns states: "the military
department is definitely an instruc
tional division of the University,
and as such the departmental head
is responsible to President New
burn for all actions of the depart
ment."
In difficulty the courses in the
department compare with those of
other University divisions, and
many deal with subjects not entire
ly military in nature, such as na
tional security problems, and geo
political principles; also, the meth
od of teaching, the principles of
education and the method of test
ing and measurement all follow
along civilian educational lines and
are, according to Major N. N.
Mihailov, aslistant professor of air
science, "closely allied to the phi
losophy of education as exercised at
the University of Oregon."
Army and Air Force
The Air Force segment of the
ROTC devotes the freshman cur
riculum to the subject “World Po- \
litical Geography”. In the sopho- ,
more year, AF cadets study mission
of the air force, structure and orga
nization and air force problems. In
the advanced years the curriculum
is devoted to teaching methods,
military law. national security and
other specific courses dealing with
the air force's mission and methods.
In the Army component the
freshmen study first aid and hy
giene during fall term, organization
and policies in winter and military
problems of the U. S. spring term.
The sophomores divide into the
Transportation corps and the In
fantry; the transportation corps
studies introduction to the trans
portation corps, economics of trans
portation and convoy operation,
while the infantry receives training
in marksmanship and technique of
fire.
In the advanced army program
such courses as maps and aerial
photos, evolution of warfare and
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Second Lieutenants
Upon graduating from advanced
ROTC thq.cadet receives a commis
sion as a second lieutenant and if
required to do so, may spend as
much as two to three months re
ceiving additional training in tech
nical studies in his field. Graduates
are required to spend the usual
period of service on active duty. j
The national administration of j
all U S. ROTC components was re
cently transferred from the Con
tinental Air Command to the Air
University Command, with head
quarters at Maxwell Air Force
Base. A revision of ROTC teaching
procedure will take place in the
next three years under the new
administration which will remove
specialization from ROTC training,
and srive all cadets a generalized
course. The revision will take place
gradually to prevent too great a
shift in subject matter now being
taught. In the future the graduat
ing cadet's specialization will de
pend at least partially ypon his
non-military studies.
During the baste years the cadet’s
military course gives the student
one term hour; in the advanced
years, a three-hour course is given,
requiring attendance five days
weekly.
Newborn Named
Board Member
University President Harry K.
Newburn has been appointed as a
new board member of the Institute
of World Affairs. William C. Jones,
dean of administration, is also on
the board.
The Institute will meet Dec. 14
to 17 at the Mission Inn in River
side, Calif. National leaders in
business and professional fields
will discuss U. S. foreign policy
and its implementation with edu
cators from leading coast universi
ties and colleges to be represented
at the conference.
First Days of Week
Boost Infirmary List
Joseph Kirkwood, William Win
ter, Phyllis Korn, Gary Lee Meyer
and Sally Ingalls are newcomers
to the infirmary list, entering
Monday evening and Tuesday
morning. Also confined to the in
firmary are Lyn Hartley, Jane
Cotton, Jerry Anderson, Clariss
Partch and Donald Surfus.
Dismissed Monday evening and
Tuesday were Marlene Norquest,
Sam Kent, Claudell Ellis, John
Wadman, James Carskadon and
David Beery.
Search for Rare Literature
Provides Interesting Travel
By ANNE RITCHEY
Emerald Reporter
Collecting priceless books and
early editions of newspapers is the
fascinating life of Robert I>. Horn,
professor of English literature.
His interests in the search for
rare volumes have led him across
the Atlantic innumerable times,
and have brought him into contact
with such famous people as the
10th Duke of Marlborough and im
mediate m e m b c r s of Winston
Churchill's family.
The seven-acre Clenheim Palace
and grounds, home of the present
Duke and Duchess of Marlborough,
was Horn’s own to study and do re
search in during the summer of
1950. The palace muniment room,
where very few scholars have had
an opportunity to work, was his
special property for study, and
during the time he was there he
met the family of the Duke.
A National Shrine
This place is Winstan Churchill's
birthplace and is now a national
shrine. Here, too, Churchill pro
posed marriage to his wife.
Since Horn's major interest is in
material relative to the*Duke, his
precious folio-sizo manuscript of
battle accounts, kept by one of
Marlborough's officers, is a special
treasure.
Another source of information
about the Battle of Blenheim,
which is quite valuable in its own
right, is Defoe's newspaper "The
Review,” of which Horn has a near
ly complete first volume.
Real Significance
The real significance these treas
ures from the past have is their
link with the present royalty and
rulers of England the Churchills.
Winston Churchill is the first
cousin of the pr esent Duke of Marl
borough.
Other treasures of his are a
fourth folio of Shakespeare's plays
and a Chaucer folio which was for
merly owned by W. W. Skeat, the
great editor of Chaucer.
Horn has one copy of Gray’s
“Elegy” in a very early edition, on
which someone had calculated their
poor taxes' This type of association,
he pointed out, is what makes the
copies even more valuable.
famous libraries
The special, intensified studying
of Horn takes him to famous
libraries and collections all over the
Giants Slate Night Tilts
NEW YORK The New York
Giants will play sixteen night
games next season, including four
with their traditional rival, Brook
lyn. This is the most arc-light con
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although they played seventeen
this past season because of make
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world. He-especially likes the Mor
gan library in New York City, and
the Rothschild library in Cam
bridge. Considered sy Home to be
the greatest library in the world in
the British Museum library, where
he had an opportunity to work for
a month.
Perhaps one of the greatest links
the professor has made is the re
lationships with other scholars,
with whom he corresponds regu
larly.
# Campus Briefs
q Pre-Nursing Club will meet
at noon on Wednesday (the 12th)
at Wesley House. Members are
asked to bring a sack lunch. Ona
!te Frost, graduate student work
ing in the infirmary, will speak
on infirmary nursing.
^ The s' holttrslilp ehalnuen
from all campus living organiza
tions will meet at 4 p.m. Thurs
day in the Student Union.
0 Kre«l V. Hein will be the
guest speaker at a meeting of Phi
Epsilon Kappa, physical education
honorary, Monday evening at 7:30
in the Alumni room of Gerlinger
hall.
Hein is the consultant of the bu
reau of health education of the
American Medical Association.
Professor May
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red to Congress for final action,"
he continued.
Throe Instead of One
"Recently we received a letter
requesting that we bring all legal
papers for another hearing in Port
land. We thought it was only one
of many hearings like those at
Chicago, . . . but it eventually
turned out to be a different mat
ter."
Lee explained that Congress
wanted to put the 15,000 requests
for suspension of deportation un
der th.e new McCarran Act. This
makes it necessary for a family '
applying for permanent residence
to have three children who are citi
zens instead of one.
At the healing in Portland Joel
V. Bcrreman, professor of sociol
ogy- protested the deportation
since Lee had "been challenging
the Marxian doctrine,” and a re
turn to his own country might lead
to execution.
Heliographing (sunlight flashed
by mirrors sometimes a hundred
miles away) was introduced in
1885 by a young lieutenant named
John J. Pershing, later comman
der-in-chief of the American
Forces in World War I.
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