Word: enlistable
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...enlist now will be given private instruction the first few days, in the nomenclature of the various pieces of artillery, after which sighting exercises will begin...
...best thing that a young man under age can do now, while awaiting such congressional action, is to remain at college and take the military training there. I should not advise anyone to enlist before he is actually needed, for we must not use up all of our strength at once--if this is exhausted we should have little to fall back upon. You are like substitute football players, who are of great service although not actually in the game...
...justify many men in holding steadily to their present tasks, whether by remaining in the university or taking up other non-military work. I think we all must realize that a certain insidious form of silent pressure is brought to bear on such men to follow the crowd and enlist somewhere, somehow. A few men are anxious to enlist in order to avoid conscription. This attitude is in many ways reprehensible. It unjustly discredits conscription which, in reality ought to result in saving every man from the charge of being a slacker...
Position with the University units are open for mechanics, cooks, clerks, and orderlies, as well as for drivers. Non-commissioned officers will be selected from those finally accepted by the army recruiting officer who will be sent to formally enlist the contingent...
...officered by former members of Battery A, and contains, like that organization, many graduates and undergraduates of the University. It is expected that these batteries will be called out very soon. Information may be obtained from C. E. Mead 2L, Wadsworth 13, any afternoon. Men who intend to enlist are to report at the Commonwealth Armory, Boston...