Word: training
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...following 12 members of the squad will leave for New Haven tomorrow on the 105 train: Appleton, Baker, Baldwin, Condon, Kissel, Martin, W. Morgan, Percy, T. Rice, Thacher, Townsend and Wylde, and also Assistant Manager MacDougall. They will practice for an hour tomorrow night in the New Haven Arena, and will spend the night at the Hotel Taft. For Saturday luncheon and afternoon they will be the guests of Grinnell Martin '10 at his farm ten miles outside of New Haven. The remaining members of the squad, with Manager Hunneman and Second Assistant Manager Morse, will leave Boston...
...Government has made no definite statement as to what positions, in case of war, will be open to men who have taken the civilian course for naval training, but the men who fit themselves for this work before the opening of hostilities are certain to get officerships ahead of those who wait until after a declaration of war before starting to train...
...President Arthur T. Hadley, of Yale: "I believe that the university should be so organized as to train men who can serve as officers for the instruction of reserves in time of peace and for acting as their leaders in time...
...Nearly 30,000 of these would be needed and needed immediately, for without officers even the rudiments of drill and organization cannot be carried through. Right there, as the experience of other countries in the war has shown, would be our most stupendous problem. Even a lieutenant, cannot be trained in minor tactics, map reading, entrenchment methods, range-finding, outpost duties, company drill, and so forth, in less than three months, yet how can we hope to train an army without first training its officers...
...informal applications for training in the Aviation Section of the Officers' Reserve Corps now number 93. Tomorrow evening the period for general application will be closed and Roger Amory "10, graduate chairman and organizer of last year's undergraduate flying corps, will collect all the blanks and send them to Washington. Individual applications, however, may be submitted after that time. The men who are accepted will train next summer together with volunteers from other colleges...