Word: enlist
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...between the ages of 20 and 35 years, who can show by certificate from the R. O. T. C. headquarters that they have completed the entire military instruction afforded at the University, will be eligible for commissions as first or second lieutenants in the Marine Corps. Men will enlist in the Marines before being sent to the training camps, and if they fail to qualify for commissions they will be returned to the service as non-commissioned officers and privates...
...night. While stating that he firmly believed that still more universal and intensive military training should be given young men of college age, he did not propose that young men should enter the army till after attending special training camps. The age at which they should be allowed to enlist would be determined by their fitness as shown by their record at those camps. Moreover, the Colonel favored the idea of schools and colleges allowing undergraduates to leave for service before the completion of their courses without its counting against their scholastic records...
...approach of the long vacation and the uncertainty of military plans for the near future, the question of utilizing the otherwise idle summer months of the country's best advantage must necessarily become pertinent in the mind of every undergraduate. Of the great number of men who will not enlist in any military organization, either because of physical disability or because of the necessity of earning money during the summer, as many as possible must engage in some activity which will be of direct service to the nation...
Owing to the departure of M. L. Luessenhop '19, who has left College to enlist in the French aviation service, the squad will be made up of the other eight men who survived the preliminaries. There will be two teams of three men each, and two alternates instead of the usual three...
...Every Man's Bit," written by Miss Lois Compton of Radcliffe, deals with a British slacker who is reformed and forced to enlist by the occurrence of a Zeppelin raid on London which kills his little girl. The former brutal father and husband is brought to his senses by this tragedy...