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...Edgar, Surgeon U. S. Navy, has been detailed as physical examiner, and Lieutenant Commander A. R. Cushing as enrolment officer. Before this the men wishing to enroll had to go to the Boston office to make preliminary enrolment and then make appointments for physical examinations at the Charlestown Navy Yard before the final enlistment. By means of the present arrangement, the physical examination and the enrolment take place at the same place and the enlistment can be made in a short time. The office is open for this enrolment on every week day from 9 to 5 o'clock...
...have joined the Volunteer Naval Reserve for Civilians, 137 are undergraduates or graduates of the University. These men are training two evenings a week on the battleships Georgia and Virginia, now lying in the Charlestown Navy Yard. The instruction is given by the regular line officers of the navy. Owing to the small number of officers who are able to devote time to this training and the limited space which can be utilized, there is already a waiting list of men ready to go into training as soon as vacancies occur...
...number of individuals who built a fast type of small cruiser for the destruction of submarines, the movement has been received most favorably and finally the Government has authorized the organizing of patrol boat squadrons along the Atlantic coast. A course is now being given at the Charlestown Navy Yard as a part of the instruction for admittance into the Naval Reserve to enable men to run one of these patrol boats in time of war. Since each boat has a crew of only five men, it is possible for a small group of friends to form a unit...
...Wireless Club will hold an open meeting in the clubroom in the basement of the Union Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. At this meeting Lieutenant Blakeslee, U. S. N., district communication superintendent of the Charlestown Navy Yard, will outline the part played by the radio corps of the Naval Training Reserve in time of war. He will especially urge all men interested in wireless telegraphy to join the Naval Training Reserve at once, as all operators for the proposed patrol boats in case of war will be drawn from this body. An operator seeking such a position after...
Those men contemplating making application for enrolment would find it advantageous to take the B and C courses of the Naval drill course now being given at the Charlestown Navy Yard. Application blanks and further information may be obtained at 40 Clavenly Hall...