Word: ages
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Applicants for admission to the schools may be of any age. Good physical condition and considerable previous nautical experience are, however, necessary. The course of instruction is designed for men who have already a good foundation of nautical knowledge, and who, with about two months' training, would be capable as an officer aboard a merchant vessel. Those who desire to enter one of the Boston training schools are to apply by mail to Director Henry Howard, at the Custom House...
...Government has taken away all our military equipment, the plan has fallen through. Our plans for next year are of a somewhat larger and more ambitious scope. We have prevented to the best of our ability our boys from enlisting until they are of age. There will be, therefore, next year about 50 men who will still want naval training. Added to this number we hope that there will be many Freshmen. We, therefore, plan first to obtain a boat of sufficient size to enable us to go to sea in the afternoon and teach the boys the practical side...
...sites for the fall camps being for the most part in the south on account of climatic considerations. In general, qualifications for admission to these camps will be the same as for the first series, but an effort will be made to obtain men at least 31 years of age, and the number admitted to training will be smaller than in the present camps...
...excited, but this is a time when every man and boy should have a more than usually keen sense of duty, should not allow excitement or exuberance of patriotism to deter him from performing to the best of his ability the obligations that lie before him; and until the age or the opportunity of rendering real military or other service arrives, the duty of the boy or young man is to train himself to clear thought, to steady application, and to persistent purpose. The college course is designed to furnish these things; and the only difference in the feeling that...
...they the men of today. We may believe that we are as courageous, as honorable, as lofty of purpose and as self-oblivious in striving for our purpose till it is fully attained. But action is not builded on tradition, nor do historic times sustain the living age...