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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reported from many sources that agricultural work, which exempts from the draft, has come highly into the favor of a large number of sons of the big cities. They have heard, with a voice that may not be denied, the call for going to the land. They have purchased overalls of the latest 1917 model from the clothiers, and now besiege dairy, truck and ranch farmers with requests for any work of an arduous kind which will increase their country's food production, all the way from milking cows to raking the leaves off the front lawn...
...work, or who are considering the Signal Corps as a means of serving the country. The regular meeting will begin at 7.30 o'clock, but any men who are in doubt as to the nature of the work of the corps or the qualifications for admittance are urged to come out at 7.15 o'clock, when all such questions will be answered. It is also essential for all men who intend to join this branch of the service to report tonight, as their entry into the course will be more difficult after the meetings are started
There is no way whereby a man will be provided a commission before going into training. Our nation does not want men who do not profit by training. But a good man serving for three months will come out a better man at the end of his period of service. It is for us to increase our powers. The R. O. T. C. is the work we have...
Enlistments are beginning to come in from other colleges in New England. Men have already been accepted from Dartmouth, Brown, Tufts, Boston University, Massachusetts Agricultural College and Exeter, and more enrolments from these and other colleges are expected in the near future...
...supplement to the recent faculty resolutions passed at Brown, which give credit to students who leave college to go into farming, and in order to emphasize the need of agriculture and intensive cultivation of the soil in the present crisis, President Faunce, of that university, has come out personally in favor of it. He has stated that "65 acres of land in Scituate have been secured on which a picked group of Brown students will be able to camp and devote the summer to cultivation...