Marines were added to the women's enlisted corps at Miami. With weekly Naval reviews on Cook Field and Navy blue swarming up High Street when liberty began, Navy slang became a new language in this college town. Time to get up. The windjammer's blowing his head off. Roll out and hit the deck.
Monkey drill in fifteen minutes.
In 1943 with two thousand Naval trainees and a large civilian Summer Session enrollment, Miami saw a busier summer than any in its history. Navy shows were produced in Benton Hall, a Shore Patrol policed High Street, busses shuttled Navy classes to and from the swimming pool, platoons marched on all the campus paths. We Are Fighting For. Classics men were teaching mathematics, foreign language men were teaching radio code, fine arts men were teaching meteorology. One of its tedious and significant tasks was the mailing of every week of the Miami Student to three thousand men and women in the armed forces.