Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life of the college student. . . . Through you the American people have begun to see that a university is . . . an expression of all that is best in the nation's thought and character. . . . Foarless, just and wise, of deep and simple faith, serene in affliction, unsuspected . . . of self-interest, you command the admiration of all men and the gratitude and loyalty of the sons of Harvard...
...aboard the Oregon on her famous run around the Horn to join Admiral Sampson against the Spanish fleet at Santiago, Cuba. Since then he has been twice around the world in the line of duty: once with the Atlantic Fleet on its circumnavigation in 1908, again in command of the gunboat Wheeling. Six months ago he was appointed Chief of Naval Operations. Now the umpires come to him with the verdict: "The Canal is wrecked; the fleet is wrecked?on paper. An enemy can wreck them again?without paper. Something must be done. The Navy needs more Army." Both...
...skipper and crew for the Shenandoah's proposed trip to the North Pole next Summer are still to be selected. Commander Frank R. McCrary should be the logical candidate. But his openly expressed disapproval of the expedition has earned him somewhat of a reprimand from Secretary Denby, and enlisted men at Lakehurst seem slow to volunteer with McCrary as their prospective chief. So far but 60 have signed up and of these only ten are eligible to go. They seem to think Captain Heinen and Commander Weyerbacher more experienced and more competent to take command. Rear Admiral William...
...Mexican Government, through its embassy here, has requested permission of this Government for the passage of a detachment of the Mexican army, together with the animals and other material which usually accompany such a command, from Naco, Ariz., to some point in Texas, where they will reenter Mexican territory for service in regions in Mexico where American lives and interests are being threatened with grave danger by the forces in revolt against the Mexican . Government...
...their function of supplying the mental stimulus for true education; and unless there is this stimulus, any number of bales of printed lectures is so much paper and little else. If the time has come when the printed lecture can supplant the spoken lecture, can arouse as much interest, command as undivided attention, the colleges will do well to revise their courses and weed out their lecturers. The personality of a great professor is often the determining factor in inspiring serious intellectual activity--and while personality can never be suppressed even in a printed pamphlet, the spoken word...