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With several hundred undergraduates either having failed to return to College since the Christmas recess or having left since that time to enlist in some branch of the national service, the university registration at Yale has fallen to approximately 1,500 men. When the college began the past fall, there were about 1,900 enrolled on the registrar's list, but since then undergraduates have been leaving rapidly...
...registrant who has been classified in Class 1 may enlist in the navy if his liability order number is such that he is not within the current quota of his local board under a present call...
...provision of sub-paragraph (a) of Section 151, Selective Service Regulations means that any registrant may enlist in the navy or marine corps after December 15, 1917, upon presentation to a recruiting officer of a certificate showing that his order number is so low (whether he is in Class 1 or in a deferred Class),k that he is not within the current quota of his local board under a present and existing call. ORSON D. MUNN, lieutenant (JG), U.S. N. R. F., District Enrolling Officer...
...thousand four hundred and ninety men are to be taken from 73 colleges and 20 military schools as well as from the Regular Army, the National Guard and the National Army. All graduates and undergraduates of these institutions, if selected to attend the camps, must enlist for the duration of the war. If at the end of the course they are not recommended for commissions, they will be required to remain in service and finish their enlistment. While students they will receive the pay and allowance of first-class privates, amounting to about $30 per month, plus food, clothing...
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...