Papers concerning ROTC at the Pennsylvania State College, 1928-1931.

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Papers concerning ROTC at the Pennsylvania State College, 1928-1931.

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The collection contains correspondence between Col. William P. Rothrock and Rev. Archibald E. Mackie, U.S. Representative J. Mitchell Chase (23rd district, Pa.), and Dr. Ralph Dorn Hetzel (President, Penn State) concerning the Wesley Foundation's pacifistic position on the Naval Bill and the lack of facilities for the ROTC program at Penn State. Also, includes newspaper clippings about army and navy preparedness, a copy of the act establishing the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania, a sheet of statistics on ROTC in Pennsylvania by name of college, and four publications (So this is war, by Tucker P. Smith; Militarizing our youth, by Roswell P. Barnes; excerpts from U.S. Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps Administration and training regulations; and Reserve Officer, January 1928).

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Smith, Tucker B.

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Rothrock, William P.

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William P. Rothrock graduated from the Pennsylvania State College in 1893. By 1929 he was on the Penn State Board of Trustees. From the description of Papers concerning ROTC at the Pennsylvania State College, 1928-1931. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 33065636 ...

Hetzel, Ralph Dorn, 1882-1947

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Ralph Dorn Hetzel graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1906. He taught English and public speaking at Oregon State College and became a full professor there in 1910. In 1912 he was asked to organize a political science department and in 1913 was made the director of the extension services at Oregon. Hetzel left Oregon to become President of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts in 1917. The College became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. From...

United States. Army. Reserve Officers' Training Corps

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The Department of Military Science was established at the University of Oregon in 1919. The school had sponsored military training through the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) program before the creation of a Military Science department. In January 1916, then University of Oregon, (UO) president Prince Lucien Cambell, established a ROTC curriculum led by LTC John Leader, a retired British officer. Over 100 students participated in the first drill in March 1916, le...

Pennsylvania State College. Army ROTC.

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Chase, J. Mitchell,

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Mackie, Archibald E.,

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Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1949

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