Word: enlistment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Department's plan for holding students at American colleges by encouraging them to enlist at eighteen in cadet corps which will be part of the regular army will have advantages from a military point of view and disadvantages from the college side. It has been found at Princeton that the undergraduates were extremely restless, and that they were not satisfied to serve in Reserve Officers' Training Corps because that gave them no military credit in the eyes of the Government. Hence the lure of the Aviation Corps or the Navy or the ranks of the army...
Lieutenant G. A. Percy '18 is expected to arrive in Cambridge today on recruiting duty for the U. S. Marine Corps. He is anxious to get college men to enlist as the nucleus of a greatly increased personnel in the officers of the corps. From him may be obtained information in regard to the Marine Officers Training Camps...
...number of recommendations from the University for the special school which opens in August, and these men will have an advantage, although they will also go through the regular two months of training as second class seamen, including work at Bumpkin Island and the Wakefield Rifle Range. Candidates will enlist immediately after their final examinations...
...over; those younger, however, may gain beforehand a basis of technical, military, and international information which will be invaluable at sea. Since before receiving a commission every applicant must have served at least three months' active sea duty, the ideal plan for men nearing the required age is to enlist actively in the summer and to take the college course in the year following. Daily Princetonian
Desire to Enlist Praiseworthy...