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...committee on public safety, the need of men for all branches of military service is urgent, and, although enlisting has been taking place rapidly, many more volunteers are needed to prepare the country adequately for actual warfare. In case of invasion we shall need 380,000 stationary coast guard volunteer troops and 500,000 mobile troops to defend the country from foreign enemies, and to prepare for such an event the Government has proposed to raise the regular army from 60,000 men to 250,000, the militia to 400,000, and to call for 500,000 volunteers. An army...
...members of the University to prepare themselves for war are many and various. Apart from the Infantry Reserve Officer's Corps, of which a training unit is established at the University, admission may be secured to any of the following: Cavalry Officers' Reserve Corps, Field Artillery Officers' Reserve Corps, Coast Artillery Officers' Reserve Corps, Medical (to include the reserve officers of the Medical Corps, Dental Corps, and Veterinary Corps, Officers' Reserve Corps, Adjutant General's Officers' Reserve Corps, Judge Advocate General's Officers' Reserve Corps, Inspector General's Officers' Reserve Corps, Quartermaster Officers' Reserve Corps, Engineer Officers' Reserve Corps, Ordnance...
...class 4, the Naval Coast Defence Reserve, "the commandant has authority to enroll anybody who would be useful on the war slate in this naval district. It embraces patrol boats, civil engineers, etc., anybody, in fact, whose services the commandant would need in various parts of the district. The main object of this class is to help secure a sufficient number of patrol boats properly manned and equipped...
...Harvard athletes have formed a coast defence unit." Well done, sirs! We can't help believing that the athletes of Dr. David Starr Jordan's university in San Mateo, Cal., will do as well, the doctor's thunders of opposition drowned in the Stanford yell. --New York...
...Harbor of Lost Ships," the fourth play, written by Louise Whitefield Bray, also a special student at Radcliffe, is adapted from a short story by Ellen Payne Huling. It concerns the dogmatic and terrible religious teachings of a narrow-minded parson on an island off the coast of Labrador. The "Harbor of Lost Ships" is the fanciful creation of a crippled boy whose death is hastened by the doctrines of the minister...