Word: pass
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...selected from the 500 applicants for admission to the Massachusetts School for Naval Air Service at Squantum, 30 are members of the University, who, if they pass the necessary physical examination, will enter in May. The selections were made by lot after a certain amount of preliminary selections were made, only 80 men being needed. Should any of them fail to pass the required physical tests their places will be filled by the next in order on the drawing list. Of those rejected one-half was on account of defective eyesight or lack of mathematical training...
...Princeton and the other universities the same inspiring devotion for the cause of the country that the great universities or England, Oxford and Cambridge, showed at the outbreak of the war and have continued to show in all the dark days of gloom that England has had to pass through...
...clock and will march to Soldiers Field where they will drill by battalions for a short time. At 5.30 o'clock they will be drawn up with the band in line of masses in the Stadium, and the retreat ceremony will be held, after which the battalions will pass in review before Captain Cordier and the military staff. This occasion will give the public the first opportunity to see the Training Corps drill together. Seats on the west side of the Stadium will be found the most advantageous...
...established at Squantum this summer. This school, which will open about June 1 and will be conducted by one of the subcommittees of the Massachusetts Committee of Public Safety, is intended to supply the navy with a carefully selected body of young men sufficiently trained and skilled to pass any tests for provisional enrolment in the Naval Reserve Flying Corps or Class V of the United States Naval Reserve Force...
...Probably the greatest surprise of the evening was the shift of Congressman C. Kitchin, of North Carolina, to the side of the pacifists and with him went many weak-kneed followers. At the close of his protesting speech, however, Mr. Kitchin admitted that the measure he opposed would undoubtedly pass...