Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...year ago there were building or authorized for our Navy 123 vessels: and then hundreds of submarine chasers and other small-type vessels and a number of destroyers have been completed, and contracts are now existing for more than 900 vessels. We have the greatest wireless service in the world, stretching from Alaska to Panama and to Hawaii and the Philippines.--TREASURY DEPT., BUREAU OF PUBLICITY...
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...
Special courses are to be offered in wireless telegraphy, naval electricity, marine machinery, naval architecture, etc. The new policy will keep the university open virtually all year to supply the Government with the trained men demanded...
Winthrop Hall, a private dormitory for theological students, has been taken over by the United States Naval Radio School. In addition to this building, the Radio School intends in the near future to occupy Russell Hall, for the number now enrolled in the wireless work, approximately 2,500, requires the acquisition of new dormitory space. Craigie Hall, which was taken over recently by the School, is now filled to the extent of its accommodations...
...professors and instructors on the University rolls is less than 1,000. In addition, Harvard has housed the radio school and its students, established a cadet school for ensigns, organized base hospital units and dental clinics, offered naval courses and instruction in military medicine, and trained men to be wireless operators and for service in the Quartermaster and Ordnance Corps...