Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...typical University eleven Coach Haughton has the following players: In the backfield, W. F. Robinson '18, H. W. Minot '17 and T. C. Thacher, Jr., '18; and in the line, C. A. Coolidge '17, W. Whitney '16, M. Weston '15 and M. Wiggin '18. Henry of Brown, a new recruit for the team, will be another strong lineman
...order was received yesterday at the Charlestown Navy Yard to enroll 5,000 more men in the Naval. Reserve of the First Naval District. It is expected that a campaign will be started at once to recruit men up to the required number. An order also came to call into active service nearly all of the reservists who are at present on the rolls but unassigned to regular duty, except those in schools and colleges...
...entered upon his work for the International Committee of the Y. M. C. A. acting as a traveling secretary among students in the universities and colleges of the United States and Canada. He was also made Chairman of the Student Volunteer Movement, his work in this connection being to recruit missionaries for various church boards...
...elephant-gray to the purpose in hand might be questioned. Some men do bear strong similitude to an elephant weighing anchor when they essay a rush from skirmish line. Others advance more like the familiar kangaroo. Perhaps, all in all, rhinoceros-gray would suit best the complexion of a recruit...
...first of the nautical training schools for the instruction of officers of the new merchant marine has been opened in the Students' Astronomical Laboratory of the University. Fourteen similar schools will be established at different parts along the Atlantic coast to recruit and train the 10,000 officers needed for the merchant ships to be built...