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title: Help keep it great! Freshmen! Sophomores! Stay in college and become a Naval Officer
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/help-keep-it-great-stay-in-college-naval-officer-1942/
description: 'U.S. Navy college-student recruiting poster: a large waving U.S. flag above a blue panel addressed to freshmen and sophomores.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Help keep it great! Freshmen! Sophomores! Stay in college and become a Naval Officer, 1942 US poster: U.S. Navy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/help-keep-it-great-stay-in-college-naval-officer-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/help-keep-it-great-stay-in-college-naval-officer-1942.jpg)

# Help keep it great! Freshmen! Sophomores! Stay in college and become a Naval Officer

U.S. Navy college-student recruiting poster: a large waving U.S. flag above a blue panel addressed to freshmen and sophomores, urging them to stay in college and become a naval officer, with a tag 'Consult your Navy V-1 faculty advisor'. The tell is the flag, a transfer device, behind the slogan 'Help keep it great!'.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
HELP KEEP IT GREAT!
Freshmen! Sophomores!
stay in college and
become a
NAVAL OFFICER
CONSULT YOUR NAVY V-1 FACULTY ADVISOR
OR SEE YOUR NEAREST RECRUITING STATION FOR FULL DETAILS
[imprint: NRB-32626-6-1-42-15M]
```

[← Healthy Bodies, Active Minds](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/healthy-bodies-active-minds-1942/) ['He's coming south. It's fight, work or perish' (Australian Department of Information) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hes-coming-south-australia-1942/)

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