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...University and Freshman crew squads have been hampered during the last few days by the measles epidemic, which has taken several men out of the boats, and by the fact that others have had to report at Newport for work with the patrol squadron. Among these in the former class are D. L. Moody '18, rowing 5 in the first eight, and A. Potter '17 at bow in the same shell. Their places are being taken by N. Brazer '18 and N. Darling '17, respectively. C. Higginson '17 is being temporarily kept out of practice by the patrol squadron...
Yale has probably been the leader in the promptness and completeness with which it has prepared for the emergency. The university has organized a unit of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, a unit of the Naval Training, the aviation coast patrol and the motor boat patrol; a research committee to co-operate with the National Research Council, a unit of the Intercollegiate Intelligence Bureau, and has built a complete armory and stables. If war comes, Yale is prepared to put its equipment at the disposal of the Government, to turn over Yale Field and the armory as a training camp...
...present crisis arose President Maclaurin, of the Institute of Technology, offered to the Government the services of the entire instructing staff and of the laboratories. The Institute has made arrangements whereby its new laboratory for internal combustion engines may be used for the instruction of the motor boat patrol squadron...
...enlist in units or singly. The units are composed of five men, an ensign, a quartermaster, an engineer and two seamen, but groups of 12 and more men have been organized to man the larger 60 and 90-foot boats. Each unit will be assigned to a boat for patrol duty in the First Naval District during the summer maneuvers, but what is more important, in case of war, will be immediately ordered to report for duty in defending the coast from submarines...
...produce officers of men in college and enlistment is not binding for more than the duration of the actual training period. Other branches of the regular army are the Battery and Cadet Corps, in which the member pledges himself for a certain length of time. In the navy, the patrol boat units are popular due to the attractive quality of the work. Enlistment in groups or singly is for four years, with three months' service during that time. Resignations will ordinarily be accepted except during periods of strained foreign relations or actual war. It is also possible to enlist...