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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard athletes have formed a coast defence unit." Well done, sirs! We can't help believing that the athletes of Dr. David Starr Jordan's university in San Mateo, Cal., will do as well, the doctor's thunders of opposition drowned in the Stanford yell. --New York...
Yale has probably been the leader in the promptness and completeness with which it has prepared for the emergency. The university has organized a unit of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, a unit of the Naval Training, the aviation coast patrol and the motor boat patrol; a research committee to co-operate with the National Research Council, a unit of the Intercollegiate Intelligence Bureau, and has built a complete armory and stables. If war comes, Yale is prepared to put its equipment at the disposal of the Government, to turn over Yale Field and the armory as a training camp...
...maximum in size; other institutions are giving special courses in military medicine; the Tufts wireless station is offered as a central wireless station for New England; the students at Smith, Wellesley and Mount Holyoke are engaged in Red Cross work; and Western Reserve has already formed an ambulance unit of more than 100 men. Nearly all the colleges and universities are taking a census of their alumni in order that all resources may be utilized immediately as soon as the Government issues the call...
...Cornell Corps consists of 16 companies of infantry, one company of engineers and sappers, one machine-gun platoon, an ambulance corps, and a signal corps. The signal corps is equipped with field wireless and telegraph instruments, and an aviation unit is in process of formation...
Tufts has organized an efficient wireless corps, Boston University is giving war courses, New Hampshire is forming a nurses' aid organization in addition to the regular cadet corps, New York University is preparing, Columbia is organizing, Rhode Island has raised a signal corps in addition to its required military unit, Pennsylvania is taking a detailed census of its faculty, students and alumni, and 1,000 men are drilling at Purdue. Among the other institutions that are preparing to do their share are Norwich, Maine, Middlebury, Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Colgate, Wesleyan, Trinity, Chicago, Minnesota, Williams, Amherst. Vermont, Worcester, Tech., Lafayette. Allegheny, Michigan...