Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...other hand the "Star Spangled Banner," while revered by all, like the Sultan of Turkey, is, like the Sultan of Turkey, known to few. When the band or the orchestra strikes up the first bars, we stand, remove our hats, and begin valiantly with the heroic query of "Oh say, can you see?" Finding that no one can see we relapse into a humming monotone, cheerful, although unintelligible. It is only at "the rockets' red glare, the bombs' bursting in air," that our patriotic choruses come out with full assurance again. That bit or warlike description has fixed...
...Cunningham is captain of the company and is how supervising the enlisting. The training and instruction of the company will begin as soon as the enrolments are complete, probably sometime next week. The work will consist of some regular infantry drill and some theoretical instruction. Lectures in first aid to the injured, elementary hygiene and camp sanitation, administration and customs of the service, and elementary nursing will be given...
...oral examinations will begin this afternoon and continue every afternoon this week. Men who have already signed up for the tests will be notified when and where to present themselves for the examination. The tests are held under the provisions of admittance into the College, which require every candidate for a bachelor's degree to pass, by the end of his second year, a special oral examination to test his reading knowledge of either French or German...
...Signal Reserve Corps of the University will begin work this evening, when a meeting for all men interested in this branch of the service will be held in the Cruft Laboratory at 7.30 o'clock. Captain C. E. Russell of the United States Signal Corps, who has been detailed by the Eastern Department to recruit a reserve battalion, will speak, and explain in full the plans made for the corps at the University. It is planned to have one course of classes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights especially for members of the University, while another group on Tuesday, Thursday...
...meeting tonight is open to those who are interested in radio work, or who are considering the Signal Corps as a means of serving the country. The regular meeting will begin at 7.30 o'clock, but those who are in doubt as to the nature of the work of the corps or the qualifications for admittance, will be expected to report at 7 o'clock, when all such questions will be answered. All men who intend to join this branch of the service are to report tonight, as it will be difficult to enter the course after the meetings...