Word: regular
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have joined the Volunteer Naval Reserve for Civilians, 137 are undergraduates or graduates of the University. These men are training two evenings a week on the battleships Georgia and Virginia, now lying in the Charlestown Navy Yard. The instruction is given by the regular line officers of the navy. Owing to the small number of officers who are able to devote time to this training and the limited space which can be utilized, there is already a waiting list of men ready to go into training as soon as vacancies occur...
Thirty-nine men have responded to Coach Duffy's call for University fielding candidates. This is 17 more than reported last year. Besides Captain Abbot, the "H" men who turned out were J. Knowles '18, an outfielder; H. S. Bothfeld '17, who was the regular shortstop last year, and C. S. Reed '17, an infielder. These men with R. Harte '17, the regular catcher, will form a nucleus for the team that meets the Braves in the first game on April...
...annual meeting of the Cercle Francais will be held in Grays 17 this evening at 7.30 o'clock to elect officers for the year 1917-18. After the regular business of the meeting there will be a reception for Professor Raoul Blanchard, of the University of Grenoble...
Universal military service is still a dream of the future. In the meantime, the crying need of America is reform in the army organization. Although we Federalize the militia and double the attendance at the summer military camps, the regular army must always remain our first line of defence. Yet our army today is pitifully small, disproportionately expensive, and inefficient. It numbers 74,000 men in the United States proper, it costs $1,000 per soldier, which is ten times the amount Switzerland expends, and the difficulty of its mobilization on the Mexican border last summer would have been ludicrous...
...enlist in the regular army now because the period of active service with the colors is too long, the pay is too small, and they are not given a training of any practical value when they return to civil life. The term of enlistment of the private soldier should be decreased from three years to one year, the length of time England has found necessary for training a private under modern conditions. The pay of the average enlisted man should be doubled so that he would receive at least thirty dollars a month. Although section twenty-seven of the present...