Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...present the Civil Service is lacking in funds and the increasing appropriations to pay salaries to any new men the first few weeks of their apprenticeship, but the bill pending in Congress, when passed, will remedy this deficiency, and all members of the service will thereafter be paid regularly...
...added to the daily routine during the past week are bayonet instruction, problems in estimating distances, and trench work. The last mentioned feature, trench construction, has been taken up only by those men enlisted for intensive training. The work has consisted mainly of constructing combination trenches, which do not present so many difficulties in building. It was also found necessary to construct trenches of this type because the dampness of the ground where the work is being carried on did not allow any depth for digging. Sand-bag fortifications have also been erected in connection with this work...
...American Ambulance Field Service, which has already recruited more than 100 men from the University for ambulance work in France, is co-operating with the Intercollegiate Intelligence Bureau in this new scheme to raise units of the Medical Enlisted Men's Reserve Corps. At present the American Corps is advising those from the University whose applications are on file and who have not signed up to go with the Harvard unit sailing on June 2, to join the University units being formed by the Intercollegiate Bureau...
...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 for each day. By this means it is hoped that before the middle of July the navy will have been re-enforced...
...arriving in Paris the aviators will report to Dr. E. L. Gros, the director of the corps, to whom they will present their credentials. After receiving further examination and training with French machines, they will go to the front with Lieutenant Thaw, who is in charge of their division, and Adjutant Raoul Lufberry...