Word: recruited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rapid progress of the new companies is due in large part to the formation of the so-called "Recruit Detachment" in which all recruits who have had little or no military experience are placed. Formerly the new men were distributed throughout the four companies, but as this system held back the men who had been drilling several days, the Recruits' Detachment was started this week to take care of the inexperienced men. The recruits will be trained until they are considered sufficiently well drilled to join the other companies when they will probably be distributed in the provisional battalion...
...University will begin work this evening, when a meeting for all men interested in this branch of the service will be held in the Cruft Laboratory at 7.30 o'clock. Captain C. E. Russell of the United States Signal Corps, who has been detailed by the Eastern Department to recruit a reserve battalion, will speak, and explain in full the plans made for the corps at the University. It is planned to have one course of classes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights especially for members of the University, while another group on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evenings will...
...University will commence Monday when a meeting for all men interested in this branch of the service will be held in the Cruft Laboratory at 7.30 o'clock. Captain C. E. Russell of the United States Signal Corps, who has been detailed by the Eastern Department to recruit a reserve battalion of the Signal Corps, will speak and explain in full the plans made for the corps at the University. It is planned to have one course of classes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights, especially for members of the University, and another group on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday nights...
Captain C. E. Russell, of the United States Signal Corps, who has been detailed by the Eastern Department to recruit a reserve battalion of the signal corps, will speak in the Cruft Laboratory Holmes Field, tonight at 8 o'clock. His subject will be the nature of signal corps field work, and he will also explain the details of the battalion he is forming. After the talk plans will be discussed for radio instruction for those who intend to join either the Naval Reserve or the Signal Corps Reserve and are not yet up to the requirements of 15 words...
...most notable contribution to the number is an article on the "Psychology of the Raw Recruit," by Mr. Floyd H. Allport '13. It should be read with the keenest attention by everyone commanding or serving in troops. "Sensory and motor reactions," etc. may possibly seem out of place in an article on drilling, but nothing is more certain than that a proper knowledge of mass psychology is the most important part of what Mr. Allport calls "the rhythm of the army cadence," at least in its early developments. The whole point of his article is that "man is made...