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...been found necessary to disband the Freshman General Athletic Class. The greater number of the men who were in the class have enrolled in the Reserve Officers Training Unit, and classes cannot be formed which will accommodate all the Freshmen and at the same time not interfere with the drilling. The instructors in wrestling and fencing will be at the Gymnasium as usual, however, to teach individual Freshmen who are to take advantage of this opportunity. The H. A. A. still has for sale boxing tickets at half the usual price. Notwithstanding the disbanding of the General Athletic Class, individual...
...present the work of the civilian unit is being carried out through separate classes organized to instruct in the different departments of naval science. The class in engineering is now studying marine engines, the one in gunnery is learning gun mechanism, the one in fire-control, how to give orders for loading and firing, and the one in signaling is working with the semaphore...
There will be no enlistments at M. I. T. as a unit, the objection being that such a unit would mean the concentration of material of the same kind, the diffusion of which would insure its better utilization. But for those men who are desirous of joining the army the committee recommends the Engineers' Corps, Coast Artillery and Ordnance Department...
...when Lieutenant R. F. Bernard, U. S. N., will speak in the Trophy Room of the Union at 8 o'clock. Lieutenant Bernard, aided by members of the patrol boat and civilian cruise committees, will explain to all men interested in naval preparedness the organization of the patrol boat units, a branch of the service in the Naval Reserve especially organized for 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...
...Yard as a part of the instruction for admittance into the Naval Reserve to enable men to run one of these patrol boats in time of war. Since each boat has a crew of only five men, it is possible for a small group of friends to form a unit of their own, and in this way be assured of congenial companionship during the term of training. In case of an actual invasion or war on our shipping no element of our defensive system would be in greater need of being well prepared than the patrol boat squadrons. Many...