Word: take
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...large number that are under the eligible age the best plan for them is to remain in the Harvard unit. When they are old enough to take a commission, they will have had three or more months of valuable training. This will enable them to become officers with a short additional term of instruction, or they will gain the maximum rank by attending the next series of Federal camps. Anyway, the succeeding weeks should not be wasted by these younger men. The country will need them later, and all the drill and instruction they can obtain in the meantime will...
Every college graduating class for the last century or so has heard the appeal to take a live interest in public affairs and to get into the midst of political activities. How well the appeal is being answered appears in a recent study of the personnel of Congress, which shows 380 members of the present House and Senate, or nearly three-fourths of the members, who had a collegiate education. No fewer than 173 colleges and universities are represented. The University of Michigan, with 27 representatives, is far in the lead, holding the pennant that it wrested from Yale...
...members of Military Science 1 who expect to leave the University after May 5 in order to enter any kind of military or naval service should take the special examination in military science which is scheduled for 7.30 o'clock on Thursday...
...military service based upon universal obligation. All men of suitable age and who are qualified should prepare themselves for active service in the army or the navy, unless there is some other service of greater importance to the cause for which they are better fitted. This, I take it, is what is meant by a selective draft. It might be well if all men of proper age and not otherwise disqualified could enroll for the service of the government under a universal obligation to serve in the capacity to which they might be assigned by the public authorities...
...ambulance driving, however, and members of the University are given an excellent chance to volunteer for this work and sail at once for France. The first 30 men will sail within a week, but these are only a part of the 80 needed, if the sections are to take the field at an early date...