Word: eyesight
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...experience is required from those who enlist for the new company, but a sound heart and good eyesight are both essential. Each man will be given a single mount in the field and if a third regiment is organized many will undoubtedly be made non-commissioned officers. Preliminary instruction includes the teaching of the different codes, semaphoring, wig-wagging, the making of maps and the reconnoitering necessary to find the position of hostile batteries...
...after a certain amount of preliminary selections were made, only 80 men being needed. Should any of them fail to pass the required physical tests their places will be filled by the next in order on the drawing list. Of those rejected one-half was on account of defective eyesight or lack of mathematical training...
...Signal Officers' Reserve Corps is still open, although over eighty men have already joined. The period of enlistment after training is six years, a short time annually being given to practice. For those men who are physically unqualified for active military service because of minor defects, such as eyesight, the new Norton-Harjes and American Field ambulance units afford the quickest and most satisfactory means of offering their services to the country indirectly by helping in France, Enlistment is for terms of six months, with ten-day vacations, most of the expenses being paid...
...strong appeal. There is little likelihood that any branch of service other than the patrol boat units will directly encounter the armed forces of Germany. The ambulance corps, however, offers an indirect way of increasing the military strength of the Allies. Those men who, for such causes as defective eyesight have been refused admittance to the regular training corps will find ambulance work the most useful and valuable form of service they can render...
...which blind the eyes of those who wish to see as well as hear. Around the balcony are no less blinding electric bulbs, which produce an effect like many darting tongues of, flame; and higher up are dangerous open gas-jets. Either one's devotion to music or his eyesight must be strong to bring him to Sanders at present for this ocular punishment. Indeed, it is doubtful whether a system combining in a worse way worse methods of lighting could be devised...