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...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...
...Junior class at Yale has lost the greatest number of men on account of enlistments in government service. To date the total is 201 members of the class have left college. The unit which attracted the most attention was Unit No. 1 of the Aero Coast Patrol, which has been under intensive training at Palm Beach, Florida. It was the first unit to leave college. Of the officers' training camps, Plattsburg drew the largest number, while only three of the camps are not included in the list. Representatives of the class are enrolled in 36 different units...
...expected that Rear Admiral Nathaniel R. Usher, U. S. N., commanding the Third Naval District, which comprises the coast territory from New London to Barnegat, will announce within the next week the establishment of a camp for the training of the men of the Naval Reserve. If such a camp is organized it will be composed of all those men who have enrolled in the Reserve since the outbreak of war who are not at present in active duty. A course of intensive training, lasting four weeks, has been mapped out, with 11 or 12 hours of work allotted...
...required will serve as gunners-mates, boatswains'-mates, quartermasters, seamen, engineers, electricians, machinists, riggers, blacksmiths, coppersmiths, riveters, ship-carpenters, firemen, coal passers, cooks, stewards, radio operators, and in many other capacities in coast and off-shore duty, whereby men of the regular navy may be relieved for duties abroad...
Lawrence Curtis 2nd '16, one of the members of the University who has been studying aviation at the Atlantic Coast aeronautical station at Newport News, W. Va., was injured yesterday morning while taking a lesson in managing a flying-boat. Although Curtis fell from 50 to 75 feet, the accident did not prove very serious, since he received only a broken ankle...