Word: district
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...annual prize of $100 is awarded, from a bequest of Addison Brown '52, late judge of the District Court for the Southern District of New York, for the best essay by a student in the Law School on some designated subject of maritime or private international law, under prescribed regulations...
Orders have been received from Headquarters, Eastern Department, Governor's Island, appointing Captain Cordier chairman of the committee for the examination of applicants for commissions in the Officers' Reserve Corps in the Boston District. All applicants for commissions must appear before and pass examination set by this committee before being recommended to the War Department. Captain William S. Bowen, C. A. C., assistant commandant of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, is also a member of the committee...
...form them into units of five men each, to man the privately owned power boats loaned to the Government for this work. Each unit, consisting of an ensign in charge, an engineer quartermaster, and two seamen, will be assigned to a boat for patrol duty in the First Naval District during the summer manoeuvers, and in case of war will be immediately ordered to report for duty in defending the coast form submarines...
...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...
Continuing a plan initiated last year a patrol squadron, consisting of privately owned power boats of high speed armed with light guns of various calibre has been established in the Second Naval District for purposes of patroling and defence against submarines in time of war. The personnel of the boats is composed of such volunteers as may, because of nautical or wireless experience, be accepted as qualified for service...