Word: signal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard Committee on Military Science and Tactics, appointed by the Board of Overseers, held its first meeting of the year at the Harvard Club yesterday noon. There were present: Langdon Marvin' '98, chairman; Major-General Leonard Wood, M.D. '84; Colonel Arthur Woods '92, Aviation Section Signal Corps; Eliot Wadsworth '98, Acting Chairman of American Red Cross; President S. N. Hollis, of Worcester Polytechnic School, Hon. '99; President H. S. Dunber, of Lehigh University; Col. G. Clark '03; General S. D. Parker '91; as guest: Col. H. L. Stimson L. '91 and Professor J. Warren...
...based on the same General Order 49, which authorized the establishment of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, but the War Department will make changes in the details of its operation. Not only will instruction in infantry be offered, but also colleges will be encouraged to develop artillery, engineer, signal corps and other units. An effort is being made, supported by President Lowell, to concentrate the drill and field work in summer camps of approximately six weeks' duration, and to devote that part of the work which would come during term time to lectures and class room work. The establishment...
...Soldiers' and Sailors' Club of Paris has prepared and issued a "Code Simplifie du Baseball", which renders the tongue-twisting American phrases into French. The Code "Simplifie" was first put into use recently in the Bois de Boulogne between the American Signal Disbursing team and the Triple A's. The "Code" was distributed to the French-speaking spectators. Boston Traveler...
...retired. Of the 1600 students enrolled in the university, almost half are in the artillery school; a large per cent of the rest are in the Naval Unit, and the men who did not choose either of these branches are fairly evenly divided between the Engineers, the Chemists, the Signal Corps, the Medical Corps, and the Army Laboratory School, which has been recently moved to New Haven from Leavenworth, under the command of Colonel C. F. Craig; there are even fewer academic students in New Haven than there are in Cambridge. The organization and general management of the military affairs...
Like an echo to his words came the piercing call of the bugle as a signal of an air raid. The lights flashed...