Word: signal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Theodore Lyman '97, who was treasurer and adjutant of the R. O. T. C., was made a captain in the Signal Reserve Corps shortly after the training camp broke up and has already sailed for France. He chose this commission rather than that of a major in the Intelligence Department in order to get to the front. His experience as professor of physics and his knowledge of wireless will be of great value to him in his new capacity...
...fact that the University has already taken rather a signal part in the great war is in consonance with the stand its members and graduates have taken in the past conflicts of the nation. Records show that in all the American wars Harvard men were active...
Every cadet student admitted has to enlist for a period of instruction of eight weeks as a private in the United States Signal Corps, but this involves no service except for his period of instruction, and if he fails to qualify, he will immediately be discharged...
Application blanks can be procured from the officers of the Signal Corps at the War Department in Washington...
...Holworthy at 3.30 o'clock, wearing caps and gowns. The class, headed by the officers, will from there march two abreast to Appleton Chapel, where they will be seated by two of the officers. After all have been ushered to their seats, the acting chairman will give a signal, at which the entire assemblage will sit down. The same order of marching will be observed on leaving the Chapel...