Word: branching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shannon Post (the Harvard University Post) of the American Legion will be formed. Major-General Clarence Edwards will be the principal speaker at this meeting. Professor Theodore Lyman '98, Acting Commander of the Post, will preside, and will outline the plans for the immediate organization of this new branch of the American Legion. Colonel Edward L. Logan '98, State Commander of the American Legion; President Lowell, and Professor W. B. Munro '99 will also speak. The temporary graduate and undergraduate committee which was recently appointed is today completing the arrangements for enrolling any men in the University who may desire...
...this direction two dangers to democracy have grown up from the imperious necessities of war. One is the tendency which in certain quarters has been cultivated to push our Government toward the form of an autocracy resting on a plebiscite, and thus to the suppression of the legislative branch, which intervenes under our system between the representatives of the people and the powers of the Executive thereby created. We had an example of such a system in the government established by the third Napoleon in the middle of the last century. It can only result, when carried...
Secretary Roosevelt began by commenting on his service with the navy: "The navy," Secretary Roosevelt said, "with which I have been connected for the past seven years, is a wonderful service; it is American all through, and is the most efficient and effective branch of the government. It is a department which the country does not really appreciate. The navy was, at the beginning of the war, built around a nucleus of 3,000 men, graduates of a great university, the United States Naval Academy; at the end of the war, this body had been augmented by other college...
...interested in forming such a branch are urged to send their names to me at my office at the H. A. A. PAUL WTTHINOTON...
...Leonard Wood League was organized for the purpose of giving the country accurate knowledge of the kind of man General Wood is. There are a considerable number of members of that League in the University, and some of them plan to organize a branch of the League here with the view of awakening the University to the fact here within its own gates there is a man better fitted than any other to guide the nation through the next Presidential period...