Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...members of the University are giving, instead of an hour or so a day, their whole time to the work. Fifteen hundred men have been enrolled at the radio school in the course which the University, in conjunction with the Navy Department, has opened to train men as wireless operators. In eight short weeks the newest member of the class will be ready for active duty at sea, on one of the ships of our navy or of our merchant fleet. Though their names are not in the University register, they are members of the University in the fullest sense...
...Signal Reserve Corps shortly after the training camp broke up and has already sailed for France. He chose this commission rather than that of a major in the Intelligence Department in order to get to the front. His experience as professor of physics and his knowledge of wireless will be of great value to him in his new capacity...
...Kent, commander of the school, and the executive officer, B. J. Leonard, both attached to the Charlestown Navy Yard, explained the work of the students. The men have been at work for nearly a month and have made great progress in the mastering of the study of wireless...
...outside the University. There will probably be about 90 men in each section and five instructors under Captain Russell will have charge of the men. From 7.45 to 9 o'clock a lecture will be given by one of the staff of instruction on the theory of wireless, which will be followed by questions from members of the class. From 9 to 10 o'clock code practice will be held for the inexperienced men and an advanced class will also be held in code work. A few men will be given practice with night or "blinker" lights...
Pennsylvania, aside from the Regiment, is taking active part in several other divisions of military service. A signal corps divided into three sections, wireless, wig-wagging and semaphore code word, has been formed; 60 students are enrolled for special training in aviation; a base hospital unit has been formed by Dr. Edward Martin; 41 gymnasium leaders have volunteered for special training and will become instructors for the conditioning of the raw recruits; about 150 men have joined the Naval Reserve; a machine gun corps is being trained, and enlistments have begun for farm and industrial service. The profits...