Word: signal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...many applications have been received for the Aviation Section of the Signal Officers' Reserve Corps that it has been found necessary to change the age requirements. Now the age limit is such that only men between the ages of 21 and 30 may apply. In accordance with this modification many members of the University who had expected to join the service are now ineligible...
...Medical (to include the reserve officers of the Medical Corps, Dental Corps, and Veterinary Corps, Officers' Reserve Corps, Adjutant General's Officers' Reserve Corps, Judge Advocate General's Officers' Reserve Corps, Inspector General's Officers' Reserve Corps, Quartermaster Officers' Reserve Corps, Engineer Officers' Reserve Corps, Ordnance Officers' Reserve Corps, Signal Officers' Reserve Corps. Application blanks may be obtained by writing to the respective sections just stated or to the Adjutant General at the War Department, Washington. Examinations will be set at intervals for applicants. The detail of such examinations, and the text-books recommended, may be found in General Order...
...take a six months' training course. The army will take certain men who have had no previous experience in flying and give then aviation training, whereas the navy only takes men for additional training, who have already demonstrated their ability to operate an aeroplane. The training for the Signal Officers' Reserve Corps of the army involves a six-months' course which may be taken during six consecutive months or for three months in two consecutive summers. During the period of training the Government will pay all expenses and in addition will give a pay equivalent to that of an enlisted...
...Cornell Corps consists of 16 companies of infantry, one company of engineers and sappers, one machine-gun platoon, an ambulance corps, and a signal corps. The signal corps is equipped with field wireless and telegraph instruments, and an aviation unit is in process of formation...
Tufts has organized an efficient wireless corps, Boston University is giving war courses, New Hampshire is forming a nurses' aid organization in addition to the regular cadet corps, New York University is preparing, Columbia is organizing, Rhode Island has raised a signal corps in addition to its required military unit, Pennsylvania is taking a detailed census of its faculty, students and alumni, and 1,000 men are drilling at Purdue. Among the other institutions that are preparing to do their share are Norwich, Maine, Middlebury, Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Colgate, Wesleyan, Trinity, Chicago, Minnesota, Williams, Amherst. Vermont, Worcester, Tech., Lafayette. Allegheny, Michigan...