Queens College - Silhouette Yearbook (Queens, NY)

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TEP This means today! the new military drill course. It is not a grand scale military show with brass bands, shining boots and clank- ing swords-but just a group of fellows who, realizing what lies before them, want to use their spare time to prepare themselves as best they can without giving up their college until they are called. The course is not wide in scope-there is no advanced and technical mili- tary science. Its purpose is . . to school prospective draftees in the modern revised military movements and the corresponding command drills and to afford each individual with a chance to issue commands with the proper inflection and timing in accordance with the oflicial military practice .... And so physical educa- tion enters a new phase-at least new for Queens Col- lege and no one can deny its place.

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.. . a shame to issue commands joe College, 1942 style, does not have to Wonder about what he will do and Where he will go when he graduates. His main concern is how well he will fill the job which he knows is waiting for him. It is quite an important job for Joe, this Army business. It is a business that is beg- ging for physical as well as intellectual strength and training. In the past, anything that smacked of militarism was felt to be out of place at Queens College-ROTC was a concession to militarism and alien to the cause of intellectual democracy . . f'-but today it is this emphasis on preparedness which We need to preserve our intellectual democracyf, Seeing the necessity for trained men We are using the limited facilities at Queens College to give those who Wish it at least some knowl- edge of military tactics, rather than send them in completely raW. On March l'7 thirty-seven boys met in D206 for the first meeting of

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DIFFEHE T ELAN In these days of hell on wings and wheels more is required of the hu- man mechanism than in any other time in history. True, we may have machines to kill with, but working those machines and rebuilding what they have destroyed is no push-but- ton job. It is Work that requires quick reflexes, sharp nerves, and ust plain physical endurance. lrVorking on this thesis, the Physical Education Department at Queens College has been making re- visions in its curriculum for the past year. W'e have retained the social dancing classes and the badminton classes--but something new has been added, and more will follow. What has come? Calisthenics have been going on in each physical traina ing course for two reasons-to con- dition and loosen up the body and to make the student more responsive to commands. The so-called heavy', or more vigorous activities have found a def- inite place on the curriculum. Ju-