Word: ages
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...inducted into the service in this manner as soon as possible for applications for the training camp are being filled rapidly. The one especial point that will no doubt appeal to many Harvard undergraduates is that it is not necessary for the candidate to be 21 years of age in order to be commissioned. It must be emphasized, however, that any candidate under that age will have to demonstrate unusual ability and maturity in order to pass the course successfully...
...training the 32 men who were to have left for Ayer next Monday for special instruction in bayonet fighting and grenades. As a result, the Second Devens Detail will be given up, and the men who were to compose it now have the option of attending the Plattsburg Under-Age Camp or not, as they...
Special sleeping cars will be run for members of the University who propose to attend the June Under-Age Camp. The cars will be attached to the regular Montreal train, but will be left off at Burlington. They will leave from the North Station on Sunday evening at 8 o'clock, arriving at Burlington at 5.20 A. M. The cars, however, will remain at the station and the occupants will be permitted to sleep until 8 o'clock. Connection may then be made with the Lake Champlain steamer, which leaves Burlington at 9.30 and reaches Plattsburg...
...which may point the way to a precedent in American academic life far broader than any the university had in mind in passing its present resolve. As the order stands it is only designed to exclude from the university's college of arts and sciences all aliens of military age who claim exemption from military service on account of their alien status, and who have not applied for naturalization. As such, the faculty's action is purely a war measure, and even so is a matter of merit...
...themselves in the way of becoming American citizens? Cordial exceptions would certainly have to be established for foreign students coming to this country only to study and not for permanent residence. But in the case of all those, born outside of the United States, who have attained the age and qualifications entitling them to undertake work in our higher institutions of learning, and who have yet given no sign of intending to become American citizens, the colleges might well raise bars of exclusion...