Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...should follow in the present emergency, I should say that the best thing to do is to enter the Naval Reserve with the intention of performing such work as the authorities may think suitable for each man according to his individual qualifications as an engineer, a navigator, a wireless operator, etc. He may be assigned to a patrol boat squadron, to deep-sea work, to foreign service or service in this country...
...article on the Wireless Club is most interesting: telling as it does of the excellent work of this organization which has been almost unheard of by the College at large. The editorials are up to the usual standard, even though the discussion as to whether professor and student should speak to each other on meeting in the Yard seems a little out of place at this time. This is more than atoned for by the common sense and particular timeliness of the words on "Business as Usual" and on athletics...
...open to the Government scientists to make such experiments as they wish; thus the Massachusetts Agricultural College is organizing the farmers of the state in order that the coming food crop will be the 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...
...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...