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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...patrol boat and civilian cruise committees, will explain to all men interested in naval preparedness the organization of the patrol boat units, a branch of the service in the Naval Reserve especially organized for college men. The navy department, after the men volunteer for this work, will form them into units of five men each, to man the privately owned power boats loaned to the Government for this work. Each unit, consisting of an ensign in charge, an engineer quartermaster, and two seamen, will be assigned to a boat for patrol duty in the First Naval District during the summer...
...have indicated their desire to apply for a commission in the Aviation Section of the Signal Officers Reserve Corps and receive training form the Government are required to obtain a letter of approval from their parents or guardian, and a letter of recommendation from a citizen of the United States; also a letter by the applicant himself stating when he is able to take the training...
Addison Leech Bliss '16 died last Thursday in France after a short attack of pneumonia, while serving with the American Ambulance Field Service. Bliss sailed form New York on January 28 with a detachment of ambulanciers, and word came that he had arrived safely in Paris. A cable received a week before his death informed his parents that he had contracted a cold, but no alarm was felt over his condition...
Saliba entered the University last fall, but suffered a nervous breakdown through overwork in connection with the Syrian fund and was obliged to leave College. He had recently been discharged as cured form the state hospital at Northampton...
...Charlestown Navy Yard as a part of the instruction for admittance into the Naval Reserve to enable men to run one of these patrol boats in time of war. Since each boat has a crew of only five men, it is possible for a small group of friends to form a unit of their own, and in this way be assured of congenial companionship during the term of training. In case of an actual invasion or war on our shipping no element of our defensive system would be in greater need of being well prepared than the patrol boat squadrons...