Word: camp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stirred at the romance of the accomplished feat as would have been another man who was not there. It was decreed that the body of Clifford Holland, who planned and supervised all of the work, should have arrived in New York City from a Michigan rest cure camp on the day that the last of the river bottom barrier separating east and west tunnels was blown apart. Thus was ended the career that began with his graduation from Harvard in 1906, whose greatest distinction was a posthumous...
This struggle also saw the entrance into fame of P. D. Haughton '99, later coach of the Crimson camp in its greatest glory. Minds was regarded as the mightiest kicker of the time, but Haughton consistently outkicked him throughout the game, and the comparative closeness of the score was due in no small measure to Haughton's powerful...
...hissing bombshell has been tessed into the camp of what he calls the "middle-aged moralists" by the declaration of the vice-chancellor of Oxford that the most agreeable quality of the modern student is his excellent deportment and beautiful manners. Disclaiming the idea that his views had been given a rosy bias by the environment of Oxford, he denied the implied strictures of the saying that "Oxford gave the world marmalade and a manner, Cambridge science and sausage...
...Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, and topmost soldier of them all. Touring the West to inspect Army stations, General Summerall last week stood up before the San Diego (Calif.) Chamber of Commerce and said: "The housing situation of the Army is a disgrace! Men are living in quarters at Camp Hearn like workers in a logging camp. The same condition prevails at other places. They are living in tumbledown shacks on the scale of the immigrant class. If you want an army to honor and carry on with dignity and the respect of the nation, it is time that...
...fill the vacancy thus caused on the active list of general officers, Brigadier General Richmond P. Davis of Camp Lewis (Washington state) was made a Major General and Colonel Walter C. Short, a San Juan Hill hero, became Brigadier General Short. To superintend West Point officialdom finally decided on Major General William R. Smith, commander of the Army's Hawaiian department (Fort Shafter...