Word: seamen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...once, and an excellent opportunity is offered members of the University to enroll in the Naval Reserve and to secure positions on powerful 30-knot boats. Men can 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...
Likewise in the Civil War the sons of Harvard faithfully supported the cause in which they believed. Altogether 1,311 men took part in the war, 404 serving as enlisted men and noncommissioned officers, 776 as commissioned officers, 120 as commissioned officers in the navy, and 11 as seamen and warrant officers. Of this number 559 were promoted, which demonstrates that Harvard men had done their duty with courage and fidelity...
...units are composed of an ensign, a quartermaster, an engineer and two seamen, and an opportunity is offered to men in the University to either organize themselves into one of these units or to enlist singly. The period of service is four years in length, with only three months during that time to be devoted to active duty. Resignations will be accepted by the Navy Department except during the periods of strained foreign relations or actual war. Each unit will be assigned to a boat for patrol duty in the First Naval District during the summer maneuvers, and in case...
...college men. The navy department, after the men volunteer for this work, will form them into units of five men each, to man the privately owned power boats loaned to the Government for this work. Each unit, consisting of an ensign in charge, an engineer quartermaster, and two seamen, will be assigned to a boat for patrol duty in the First Naval District during the summer manoeuvers, and in case of war will be immediately ordered to report for duty in defending the coast form submarines...
...said attacking democracy because of its inefficiency. While this unfortunate quality can never be entirely eradicated from democratic systems, yet the calling into service of real experts should so diminish it as to make this fault negligible. The Naval Advisory Board is accomplishing what a body of mere seamen cannot do, for such men as Edison in dealing with perplexing questions have a breadth of vision which no admiral could ever possess...