Word: militiaization
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...Aviation Corps, while 85 others have signed up for aeroplane work during the summer of 1917, under the guidance of the Government. The Naval Training Cruise contingent already numbers 60 and 27 men have applied for admission to the Naval Patrol. The balance are in various organizations of the militia, particularly in Battery A of the Massachusetts National Guard...
...present working out a detailed plan of instruction, but the final announcements cannot be made until it is approximately known how many men will enrol in the unit. In accordance with instructions from the War Department Captain Cordier has already made application for the discharge from the militia of certain men who are both in Military Science 1 and in some organization of the state militia. Any undergraduates who are at present in the militia and who wish to join the officers' unit for the second half-year should hand in their names to Captain Cordier...
Captain Cordier will now be given full powers as commandant of the corps. All those who have joined the state militia may enter the corps by applying for their discharge to the proper authorities...
...trained in schools similar to the unit established here. Members of the University, by joining this training unit, will be given the necessary instruction to fit them for commissions, and the advantages of such an intensive training over that obtained by enlisting in a volunteer force or in the militia are evident. Men who have an opportunity to be trained for officers should by all means render this more difficult service rather than enlist in the ranks...
With the President not against him, are the advocates of universal training. Our militia system has failed and the most strenuous efforts of our recruiting officers have been unable to bring the regular army up to its required size. Words are heeded only when there is strength behind them. It is the general opinion that the President's words were good, that his plan is a great one, but the execution of this plan will require something more than "moral strength." If we are to see its success and if we expect to have a voice in the reorganization...