Word: enlist
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Applicants are accepted only for general service, and no men will be enrolled higher than chief petty officer. Those who enlist and remain in the seaman branches of the service will probably be used on the 110-foot scout boats, on transports, or on the convoy vessels of the Navy as soon as their period of training has come...
...selected to attend from these institutions will be required to enlist for the duration of the war and if after completing the three months course they are not recommended for commission, they will be required to remain in the service and finish their enlistment. While students they will receive the pay and allowances of 1st class privates. Those who successfully complete the course and are recommended, will be carried on a list as eligible for appointment as 2nd lieutenants and will be commissioned in order of merit as vacancies occur...
Some of the men come from the regular navy, other have given up professions and positions in civil life to enlist. The University is only too willing to meet them half-way, to give them its plant and facilities for teaching, its instructors and its experience. The Cruft laboratory, the Gymnasium, Pierce, Perkins, and Memorial Halls are already at their disposal. Our athletic field and equipment is theirs to use when they have time. If there is anything more that we can give them, we will do so gladly. It is an honor to the University to consider them...
When Washington issued the call to arms in 1775, many undergraduates left Cambridge to enlist in the Continental Army. No record is available as to the exact number of students who fought in the war, but there were only 26 in the graduating class of 1779, whereas twice that number had received degrees in 1775, before the outbreak of hostilities. During this period it was found necessary to transfer the College from Cambridge to Concord, where temporary quarters were established for 14 months...
Professor Robert D. Ward, who recently resigned from the meteorology department of the University to enlist his services with the Government, has been appointed to give instruction in atmospheric phenomena to the prospective aviators enrolled in the aero course established at Technology. His work will be carried on in co-operation with the War Department under orders of which he lately made a visit to Toronto to make a study of the instruction which is there being given at the Cadet School of the Royal Flying Corps. Professor Ward has become a member of the teaching staff of the Institute...