Word: signal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...aviation school has been established at Princeton by the Government for the theoretical training and instruction of candidates for positions of first lieutenant in the Aviation Section of the United States Signal Corps. The school will open June 25 and while Princeton men will naturally predominate in numbers, the course will be open to all college men and to those who, though not graduates of universities or colleges, still can fulfill the educational requirements. The reading of the Government's ruling is as follows: "The candidate must have had a three-years' college education or its equivalent...
Then in various parts of the field, signal towers built of light branches, which served as the framework for the human pyramids, sprang up. The fire lighting without matches then followed and in just 17 seconds there came to the representative of a Newton troop a reward in the form of a thin curl of smoke and the dry tinder burst into flame...
...orders have been received to enlarge the branch of the Signal Reserve Corps established at the University new recruits are needed to bring the size of the corps to the standard set by the Government. Already 119 men are regularly attending the classes in radio and code work at the Cruft Laboratory, preparatory to the encampment of the members of the corps for intensive training. New recruits are to report to Captain E. C. Russell, at Army Headquarters, 25 Huntington avenue, Monday and new classes in code work will be organized for these men, who will be only slightly handicapped...
Companies of the Second Field Battalion of the Signal Reserve Corps, of which the enlisted members training at the University are a branch, will be organized when the corps goes into camp. It is probable that the 26 members of the University already enlisted, together with the new recruits from the University, will form the nucleus of one company at camp as will the men enlisted from Dartmouth and also those from Yale. Some of the commissioned officers for the new company have already been named and the remaining appointments will be made when the company is officially formed...
Captain Rush and his escort were greeted by President Lowell, Professor G. W. Pierce, Ph.D. '99, director of the Cruft Laboratory, and F. W. Hunnewell, 2d, '02, Secretary to the Corporation, upon their arrival at Pierce Hall where the Signal Corps recruits are housed. After reviewing the members of the radio school, some 110 strong, in uniform, the visitors, accompanied by the University officials, inspected the sleeping quarters and classrooms in Pierce Hall, and the equipment and classrooms in the Cruft Laboratory. A detail from the United States Marine Corps, under command of Captain J. A. Adams, which served...