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what Uncle Sam instructs us to do. And ours is the first phase in getting
the boys ready for the thing that is so vital to the preservation of our

countrye Physical training makes fit fighters.
The Machinists’ Mates were succeeded in April by a contingent of
Wiestrisianus' Matec. This procran wild be terminated in Octever, and
we are advised that the Navy V-12 wrenven will be greatly reduced in
November. The ASTP which started out with an enrollment of seven hundred
__tyainees last August, is redueeddto less than 75 at the present time, but
approximately 250 more boys are expected in August. The V-5 ovenvin will
be terminated July first, we understand.
The transition to peace is becoming oridient on Mount Oread, but we
' have not slowed up in our physical eanishsbiine of these boys who may
have to fight. These trainees in all groups have been carrying on shety
athletics, and the spirit of competition is very manifest. There wil be.
a& great revival of physical training with the returning of our men from
the services, and we will find that playfields will be rehabilitated and

enlarged, fieldhouses and swimming pools will be built. These young men

will have a desire to be physically fit.