Word: local
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...provision has been made to circumvent the regulation which prevented the acceptance of a candidate unless he is already in the military service. Students now-registered under the draft law will be given the necessary papers from the Coast Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Va., then inducted by the local board and sent to the artillery school and there assigned to a special company, where they will be given preliminary training till July 6. Students not registered should come to Fort Monroe at their own expense and enlist. They will then be assigned to the special company later...
...Congress of May 20 last, and the proclamation of President Wilson drawn up on the same day, all men who have reached the age of 21 since June 5, 1917, are required to register tomorrow between 7 A. M. and 9 P. M. at the office of the local board having jurisdiction of the area wherein he permanently resides, or at such other place as shall be designated by such local board. The place for registration here in Cambridge is either the City Hall or the City Building in Brattle Square...
...students of the University who have become 21 years old since June 5 last must comply with this order. While divinity students and students of the Medical School are not liable to military service, they must register and then be exempted by their local boards. It is provided that all persons registered under the provisions of the Act of May 20 shall be placed at the bottom of the list of those liable to draft in the classes to which they are assigned under such rules as President Wilson may prescribe...
...person who, on account of sickness, will be unable to present himself for registration may apply on or before the day of registration at the office of any local board for instructions as to how he may register by agent...
...disgruntled graduate, writing in The Forum some years ago, distinguished the Lampoon as the only paper in the University which wasn't afraid to tell the truth. His statement was a rank libel, but it has its germs of fact. One reads the CRIMSON to read about local events, and the Illustrated to see pictures of them; the Advocate is a sample of what the undergraduates are writing. But if one is hunting for the quintessence of the University, the thrice-distilled spirit, the punch, as it were; at present as in the past, one goes to the Lampoon...