Word: coast
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...expected that Rear Admiral Nathaniel R. Usher, U. S. N., commanding the Third Naval District, which comprises the coast territory from New London to Barnegat, will announce within the next week the establishment of a camp for the training of the men of the Naval Reserve. If such a camp is organized it will be composed of all those men who have enrolled in the Reserve since the outbreak of war who are not at present in active duty. A course of intensive training, lasting four weeks, has been mapped out, with 11 or 12 hours of work allotted...
Lawrence Curtis 2nd '16, one of the members of the University who has been studying aviation at the Atlantic Coast aeronautical station at Newport News, W. Va., was injured yesterday morning while taking a lesson in managing a flying-boat. Although Curtis fell from 50 to 75 feet, the accident did not prove very serious, since he received only a broken ankle...
...nation has entered upon a new cycle of its life. It is no longer a confederation of colonies with martial dreams limited to the Atlantic Coast: nor a union of states hugging itself within its sheltering shores. The nation is a world power, and what it was, it may not be again...
...United States to lecture on the war issues. Professor Sumichrast has been in England since he left the University in 1911 and he reached this country in a British liner last Friday. He expects to make most of his speeches in the Middle West and on the Pacific Coast...
...opportunity is also given men to row each day, but the boathouse will probably be opened soon as a training school for Naval Coast Defence Reserve men. At certain hours each day the gymnasium is reserved for members of the R. O. T. C., and competent instruction in swimming, as well as in exercises that tend to develop agility and general efficiency are given...