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...aviation school, open to members of the University, will be held at Squantum this summer. The Navy Department has not enough sea-planes and instructors to provide aviation training for novices, and so this school, to be known as the Massachusetts School for Naval Air Service, is founded in order to give men enough training to admit them to the Naval Reserve Flying Corps. It is open to college students and graduates between the ages...
Four sea-planes have been promised by the naval authorities, and preparations for the field and buildings at Squantum have been completed. Classes of 20 men will be prepared, following the naval requirements for training, which demand 24 flights of at least 20 minutes each. The men will live in tents under military discipline...
...speaking of next summer, Captain Milling regarded the question of establishing a school at Squantum as almost entirely one of personnel. Such a proposition seems doubtful. Although the University men will be treated individually as regards their applications, they will be trained at a Government School as a unit and will be naturally given precedence over an equal number of individuals who have not studied together...
...from the University who signify their willingness to take up the work seriously will be organized into a unit to begin regular Government instruction this summer at Squantum if the Government will establish a school there or at some other school if it is practical. This is the plan which the organizer of the unit intended to follow before the war crisis arose. It is planned now to meet the emergency of a declaration of war by passing upon the applications here and in the event of war to submit a certain number of them in a body...
...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 in connection with the work of the course. The Government requires no previous military experience and the periods of instruction will be so arranged that the training may be taken during the summer. This mass meeting...