Word: merchants
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...naval course will fit men for positions as junior officers of the line of the navy, and for service in our merchant marine. That is possibly an even more important work than training army officers. An army officer may sometimes be born with the gift of leadership. A navy officer is always made, and by a slow and exact course of study in the sciences of the sea. The preparation, being more thorough, is therefore more permanent. When the peace note has been signed in Potsdam, we shall still need our merchant marine. Men who understand the study of navigation...
...training received on this cruise will fit men for commissions in the Navy or in the merchant marine when they become...
...course particularly valuable in fitting them for officer ratings in the Naval Reserve. Those who take the course, and later supplement their knowledge by practical experience at sea for a year or so will probably be fitted for an officership on one of the ships of the new merchant marine...
...first of the nautical training schools for the instruction of officers of the new merchant marine has been opened in the Students' Astronomical Laboratory of the University. Fourteen similar schools will be established at different parts along the Atlantic coast to recruit and train the 10,000 officers needed for the merchant ships to be built...
...schools may be of any age. Good physical condition and considerable previous nautical experience are, however, necessary. The course of instruction is designed for men who have already a good foundation of nautical knowledge, and who, with about two months' training, would be capable as an officer aboard a merchant vessel. Those who desire to enter one of the Boston training schools are to apply by mail to Director Henry Howard, at the Custom House...