Word: age
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This statement was given out yesterday by the College Office; the action being taken as a result of the War Department Order which permits all men in the R. O. T. C., whether taking Military Science 1 or 2, to apply for admission to the June under-age camp. This order was received yesterday by Military Headquarters and states that the War Department has been disappointed in the number of applicants...
Though the school is primarily for college graduates it has always accepted, without candidacy for a degree, non-college men of qualified preparation if they have had at least three consecutive years of business experience and have been over 21 years of age. It offers under the present temporary arrangement for men above the age at which the Government is calling to military service, opportunity for training for civilian positions in which men may be more directly useful than otherwise in helping to produce the material means by which in part the war will...
...from headquarters in Washington, the United State Marine Corps offers an opportunity to a limited number of picked men to enrol in a training course for aviators. It is desired that the men be the best of available material, sound in body and between 20 and 30 years of age. Educational qualifications will be given special consideration, as it will be necessary for accepted applicants to pass a ten-weeks' course in a ground school before going to a flying field. During training they will rank with Naval Cadets and have the rating and pay of gunnery sergeants...
...opportunity is limited to men of 20 years of age or over; those younger, however, may gain beforehand a basis of technical, military, and international information which will be invaluable at sea. Since before receiving a commission every applicant must have served at least three months' active sea duty, the ideal plan for men nearing the required age is to enlist actively in the summer and to take the college course in the year following. Daily Princetonian
...training unit, recognized, equipped, and officered by the War Department. Students will not be required to join, but when they do they will be regularly enlisted and subject to the call of the President. Only the gravest emergency, however, will bring a call before an undergraduate reaches the age of twenty...