Word: enlist
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...circular is being sent to all graduates and undergraduates of the University in Cambridge by Professor R. M. Johnston, chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, urging them to use their special abilities in case of war rather than enlist as a private. This leaflet will to some extent take the place of the census that has been taken in other colleges. It advises all men to endeavor to qualify as officers rather than enlist as privates. Men of special training are to use that training in case of war. The circular enumerated some of the branches in which expert...
...Rather than enlist as a private, try to qualify as an officer of the line, or as a specialist...
...boats in all, and men are needed badly. Volunteers for the new boats are necessary at once, and an excellent opportunity is offered members of the University to enroll in the Naval Reserve and to secure positions on powerful 30-knot boats. Men can enlist in units or singly. The units are composed of five men, an ensign, a quartermaster, an engineer and two seamen, but groups of 12 and more men have been organized to man the larger 60 and 90-foot boats. Each unit will be assigned to a boat for patrol duty in the First Naval District...
...possible alternatives should be carefully considered. The R. O. T. C. is first in importance, and would naturally be the choice of those men interested in the army. The advantages of the Reserve Officers' Corps are that the training is intended to produce officers of men in college and enlistment is not binding for more than the duration of the actual training period. Other branches of the regular army are the Battery and Cadet Corps, in which the member pledges himself for a certain length of time. In the navy, the patrol boat units are popular due to the attractive...
While it is proverbially difficult to enlist the interest of the undergraduate members of the University in anything that is called a lecture or a course of lectures which lie outside the curriculum, it is easy to draw audiences for well-known men who are fitted to speak on subjects of general interest. Such a speaker and such a subject are contained in the series of talks being given by Dr. A. T. Davison '06 on "The History and Development of Choral Music" in Huntington Hall, Boston. The public has already realized the opportunity of hearing one of the best...