Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With 25 members of the University enlisted in the Signal Reserve Corps, work in this branch of the service here has been given an excellent start. Classes have been held in the Cruft Laboratory for two weeks and the men are well along in the radio work which is the basis of the course. The classes each night have consisted of a one hour lecture on radio theory, followed by an hour of code work, the men being divided into sections according to their ability to receive the code...
...also in the Signal Corps will probably be allowed to either remain in the former organization until the Signal Corps is called to camp or resign now from the training corps and enter on a routine of seven hours a day work for the Signal Corps. This plan will be carried out if the Faculty will give credit to the men who make this change. The new intensive work will consist of flag practice, use of "blinker" lights and additional radio work. Members of the R. O. T. C. in the Signal Corps are to speak to Sergeant Howson...
With the swearing in yesterday of 19 members of the University for service in the Enlisted Signal Reserve Corps, work on the organization of a University company in the Signal Corps was begun. The men accepted were first given a rigid physical examination and then took an oath to serve the country in this branch of the service, the enrolment being for a term of four years, but in time of peace only a nominal amount of training a year will be necessary...
Captain C. E. Russell, who will have charge of the work at the University, is making plans for the formation of a company composed of members of the University, and when 40 men are enlisted the company will be organized. A regular company in the Signal Corps is composed of 77 men, 30 of whom are noncommissioned officers...
...camp probably somewhere in this state for more intensive work. Men who desire to take their physical examination are to apply for an appointment at the meeting of the class Monday. The men who were accepted yesterday were among the first to enroll in this new branch of the Signal Corps and to R. E. Neal '19 falls the honor of being the first man in the country to be accepted for the Enlisted Signal Reserve Corps. The other members of the University who were accepted yesterday are: H. J. Bascom '19, H. W. Boal '18, S. D. Dodge...