Word: forte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another opportunity for members of the University to secure commissions as ensigns in the Naval Reserve Force with the flight designation of naval aviator is open at the flight school at Fort Hamilton, New York, which is enrolling a large number of college students in the summer...
...Board of Officers at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn in meeting every Monday and Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock to examine applicants, and applications may be made until June 25. Those who are accepted are required to take an oath that, if qualified, they will continue to the completion of 45 days' duty this summer and 45 days' duty the following summer. Possibly the departments will order those completing the preliminary course on August 15 to proceed to Hampton Roads and complete their training...
...Colonel W. S. Browning, in charge of the Field Artillery Unit at the University. When the department enters on its sixth year at the University next fall, two of the present, instructors will leave Cambridge for active service and three new officers from the Field Artillery School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, will replace them on the teaching force at the University...
...five in active service with enlisted troops. Captain Daniels has spent the last four years on the teaching staff of the University Unit, to which he was appointed in 1920, the year after the establishment of the unit at Harvard. Next year he will do service work at Fort Sill, Captain Perry has spent two years at Cambridge, and two years at the unit in Yale. His year of active service will take him to Camp Benning, Georgia, where he will be in command of a Field Artillery battery...
...three new instructors are all graduates of the West Point Military Academy, who come to Harvard after a year of training in the most advanced forms of gunnery at the Fort Sill Field Artillery School...