Word: signal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...requirements for enrolment in a flying unit of the Signal Corps, United States Army, and the prospects for the organization of a flying unit composed of members of the University were outlined by Roger Amory, graduate chairman and organizer of last year's undergraduate flying corps to over 100 students in the Trophy Room of the Union last evening. Mr. Amory was introduced by H. Coolidge '19, who was active in the organization of the undergraduate corps last year...
Profiting by the experiences of European belligerents in the early stages of the war, the Government has outlined a plan for the organization of flying units throughout this country, certain restrictions being placed upon applicants for training and commissions as aviators in the Signal Corps. All applicants must pass both a physical and mental examination, a year or more in college being sufficient to pass the latter requirement. Those who are received for training at one of the Government schools, of which several have already been established, are ranked as sergeants and if they are accepted as regular commissioned officers...
...mass meeting of all men interested in the formation of a flying unit of the Aviation Section, Signal Officers' Reserve Corps, United States Army, will be held in the Trophy Room of the Union tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock. The graduate chairman and organizer of last year's undergraduate flying corps will address the meeting, explaining the purposes of the proposed new organization and the nature of the work. Application blanks by which the Government may be given some idea of how many men are interested will be distributed. These blanks will be in no way binding...
...further purpose of this meeting will be to outline the requirements for admission to the Aviation Section. According to the statement recently issued by the Signal Corps of the United States Army, a commission in the Aviation Section may be obtained in approximately six months' time at one of the Government flying schools. The War Department has intimated that if there is a sufficient number of men at the University desiring to take the training, a Government aviation school will be established at Squantum. It was further brought out in this statement that the War Department will pay all expenses...
There are at present three advanced aviation schools at which the prospective aviator may obtain his commission in the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps. These are located on Long Island, in Illinois and in California. In addition to these schools, preliminary training at the schools in eastern New York was made possible for undergraduates last summer through the undergraduates' flying corps...