Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1884-1884
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...male reasons as because it was more becoming and easier to get. Harvard also is a great favorite with the girls, but not so many of them have waltzed with a real Harvard student, and Yale and Princeton are ahead. West Point, though, is away up in front. No civilian, no matter how darling his mustache and wavy its silken ends, can compare with the roughly shaved cadet; the bell button, with its imaginative tinkling and figurative heart shape, outweighs...
...ought to be highly popular. The majority of the lectures are to be given by gentlemen who were engaged in the operations described and who in addition have given particular study to the subjects of which they treat. Two or three of the lectures, however, will be given by civilians, but by gentlemen none the less competent to discuss their subjects. Lectures of this sort by such finished historical scholars as John C. Ropes and Dr. Channing cannot fail to be of interest, if for no better reason as presenting an instructive contrast in the point of view...