Word: signalled
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Major General Squire, Chief of the Signal Corps and Director of Aviation during the war, has approved of the intercollegiate flying contests which are to be held at Atlantic City this spring and summer. According to a recent despatch he said, "I strongly favor the plan. This proposition offers a new and chivalrous sport for the Colleges to compete in, and I ardently hope that the scheme will be a success. There are thousands of men in the colleges who have been fliers in the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps Air Service so there is an abundance of material...
Plans have been completed for the establishment of a permanent military school at Columbia University in which three branches of military science and tactics--infantry, artillery, and signal corps work, --will be taught in co-operation with the regular graduate and undergraduate work of the university. It has been announced by that university that, in accordance with the plans of the War Department which is arranging to establish military schools in universities and colleges throughout the country, Columbia hopes to create a large body of trained officers, whose numbers will be increased with every graduating class, and who will...
Colonel Edwards also emphasized the fact that military instruction at Columbia would be co-ordinated with the regular work of the students. Courses in heavy artillery will fit logically with the courses of the men preparing to be civil engineers, and training in the Signal Corps will be closely connected with the work of students of electrical engineering...
...Princeton men are already signing up, though slowly at first, for the Field Artillery Unit to be formed there this summer. Columbia has established a form of military department, in which Government instructors will give courses designed to fit men for eventual commissions in the Infantry, Artillery, and Signal Service, College authorities all over the country are accepting one or the other of these alternate plans...
101st Field Signal Battalion...