Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...slow in his fielding, Bond redeemed himself at the bat. He connected for a two-base and a three-base hit in the Morris Heights game. Captain Casey covers a wide territory in the centre garden, is a dependable fielder, and a consistent hitter. He will make a valuable recruit for the 1917 University team...
...Cruise the recruit is under no more obligation than before to enlist in time of war; but he will then be asked to signify whether in case of war during the next four years he will volunteer. The signing of such an agreement is in no manner compulsory...
...course is intensive, only four months being required to turn out a finished aeroplane operator. The sum expended for the education of each man is about $1200, exclusive of board and lodging. The recruit wins a military brevet after spending twenty or thirty hours in the air, fifteen minutes each morning and fifteen minutes each morning and fifteen in the afternoon, according to weather. There are eight classes or grades from one to another of which the candidate progresses as his ability to manipulate the aircraft develops...
...been eminently satisfactory. In establishing military training as a course counting toward a degree, the University is the first to adopt a policy which will ultimately be recognized in every other college. Yale, Dartmouth, and Williams have formed strong student military organizations, and the present plan to recruit a corps of 50,000 officers will most likely be carried through successfully...
...will deny, furthermore, that a tactical knowledge of the Manual of Arms is of some use to a prospective recruit. The General Staff doubtless is not satisfied with the work done in this line in state colleges and preparatory schools providing military training--we sincerely hope it is not--but this seems all the more reason for establishing a University battalion to see if we cannot more nearly approach that degree of efficiency which will satisfy the General Staff. And since, in addition to a sound physique and a knowledge of chemistry, emphasized by Dr. Sargent, it is necessary...