Word: americanisms
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...under his charge, and in a skirmish with the natives was severely wounded. On returning from the Philippines in 1907, he was appointed superintendent of the United States Military Academy with the rank of colonel. As an author Colonel Scott has been enabled from his intimate knowledge of the American Indians and their ways to write several monographs and reports which have proved of great value to the government...
...reading has been arranged by the Speakers' Club and will be open to all members of the University. Professor Trueblood has been for many years head of the Department of Public Speaking at the University of Michigan, and has given readings of this play and others at the principal American universities...
Colonel Scott, who lectures this evening in the Union, has spent more than thirty years in the regular army. He knows West Point from his life there as cadet and superintendent, but he is also thoroughly acquainted with the American army from service in this country and in the insular territories. He is a student as well as a soldier, and his books on Indian life and languages are valuable contributions to native anthropological knowledge...
...went to the Philippines to become governor of the Sulu Archipelago. While holding this position he was seriously wounded by natives of the islands. Between the time of his graduation from West Point and the opening of the Spanish War, he held many positions of responsibility among the American Indians of the Western States, and from the knowledge of the Indians acquired during this time, he has written several monographs and reports. On returning from the Phillipines in 1907, he received the appointment as superintendent of the United States Military Academy with the rank of colonel...
...SEMINARY IN ECONOMICS. A Report upon the Work and the Forthcoming Meeting of the American Economic Association in New York, in December. Professor Carver. Upper Dane...