Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Columbia's war activities include practical courses in aeronautics, signalling, wireless telegraphy and engineering, while 700 men have been graduated from the U. S. N. Gas Engine School at the university for service on submarine chasers...
...Yale Battery will open a third unit for war service immediately after the Easter holidays. At that time a new ordnance course, with the support of the professor of ordnance and gunnery at West Point, will be established, and will be followed by courses in army clerical work and in preparation for service in the Intelligence Bureau and Red Cross. The Yale News also announced recently that the registration in the naval courses at New Haven now totals more than...
...University of Pennsylvania, too, is active in war preparation. More than $150,000 has been spent for military work and every department of the University has been altered to meet the needs of the Government. The Pennsylvania R. O. T. C. is now the largest in the country, with more than 2,300 men in training...
From the point of view of the extensiveness of its war preparations, the University of California probably leads other academic institutions. The university has spent more than $160,000 for such equipment as a large school of military aeronautics, which graduates approximately 60 men every eight weeks. The university has also sent 2,500 students and faculty members into active service, while the entire institution has been mobilized and all its resources offered to the Government...
...Brookline Choral Society to take part in the latter's annual concert, to be given this year in the Brookline Town Hall Sunday, April 7, at 3.30 o'clock. The choral society, which is led by Emil Mollenhauer, has suffered a great depletion in numbers because of the war, and has appealed to the Glee Club...