Word: ages
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...good thing for Harvard undergraduates, who, because of their age, are not yet liable to draft, to try to find some way of entering the service immediately, and give up their studies, in order to make use of their good will, their physical strength, and their intellectual capacity in some kind of war work...
...started next fall in practically all of the colleges over the country. Enlistments will be voluntary and officers to train the students are to be provided by the Government. If possible the War Department plans to furnish equipment to every college that enrols 100 or more undergraduates above the age...
...will constitute the student a member of the Army of the United States, liable to active duty at the call of the President. It will, however, be the policy of the government not to call the members of the training units to active duty until they have reached the age of 21, unless urgent military necessity compels and earlier call...
...length of the June Camp for under-age men will have no effect upon the attendance at the University's Summer Training Camp, according to the Military Office, which has announced that all men who go to the Government school will be allowed to enter the University Corps for the rest of the summer, even though the dates of the two camps overlap. Already 300 men have been accepted for the summer training at the University July 1 has been officially set as the opening date of the camp...
Nothing new has been heard from Washington concerning the June under age camp, but certain announcements have been made by the Military Office with reference to the intensive course of training that is to be taken up by the men enrolled for the June Camp after the conclusion of their early final examinations and before the opening of the Camp. Next Monday these men will be formed into a unit for special drill, and in addition to this they will be required to attend all formations of the regiment until they are dismissed for a short vacation prior...