Word: pass
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will be identical with those established at the universities of California, Texas, Illinois, and Ohio, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Cornell University. The only requirements to enter one of these seven schools are that the men must be between 21 and 30 years of age, that they must pass physical examinations, and that each man must have received a three-years college education or its equivalent. The course will include the theory of aerial dynamics, lectures relative to aeronautics, the scientific theory of aerial flight, wind pressure, the action of internal combustion engines, and a general knowledge of preliminary...
Candidates who pass the physical examination will report at a place and time designated by the War Department. Orders to report at a mobilization point will probably follow enlistment immediately. The contingent will sail for Europe as soon as it is properly equipped...
...request of the Intercollegiate Intelligence Bureau, colleges and universities throughout the country are recruiting similar ambulance units. Enlistment in the University contingent is to be for the duration of the war. The units are open only to members or graduates of the University who are able to pass a physical examination. The physical requirements, however, are not at all rigorous, and minor defects in sight or feet will be passed...
...Memphis' sin alone. It was not Tennessee's sin alone. It was the sin of this nation, which allows such things to come to pass. It was the sin of our lawlessness, of our mad disregard of all that makes existence bearable...
...Unless existing legislation and that immediately contemplated shall be amended so as to adopt as a permanent continuing National Military Policy, the fundamental principle of universal liability to training and service, practically the entire military force of the United States will pass out of existence upon the termination of the present...