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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Examinations for members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and those who are to leave College immediately for some other branch of the service will continue throughout today and tomorrow...
...work of the Signal Reserve Corps at the University will commence Monday when a meeting for all men interested in this branch of the service will be held in the Cruft Laboratory at 7.30 o'clock. Captain C. E. Russell of the United States Signal Corps, who has been detailed by the Eastern Department to recruit a reserve battalion of the Signal Corps, will speak and explain in full the plans made for the corps at the University. It is planned to have one course of classes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights, especially for members of the University...
...recruiting office at Leavitt and Peirce's. Owing to the fact that they are being changed from a battalion of infantry to a regiment of engineers which has, in proportion, double the number of non-commissioned officers, there are a large number of vacancies. The engineers are the highest branch of the service and offer the greatest opportunity for advancement. Although any kind of technical, mathematical, or military experience is of value, it is by no means necessary. The intention is rather to train military engineers under regular army officers, than to enlist men trained in some other branch...
...very probable that all Yale artillery candidates who have made application for camps will go to Fort Sill. The artillery camp there offers the best facilities for that branch of the service in which the University is most interested; and, although nothing definite has been announced as yet, the chances are good for such a plan and we are all hoping that it will materialize...
...Norton '92 has been given the Cross of the Legion of Honor. He is the first American to receive this distinction for services during the war. Norton was one of the organizers of the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps at the outbreak of the war and has built up this branch of service until it now has a record of carrying over 30,000 wounded during...