Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entertainment the command has provided for frequent moving picture entertainments and occasional dances at the post. Moreover, students will be allowed to take week end trips to neighboring cities and towns...
...still find the time and the interest to listen to him. The latest arrival in this field is Mr. John Palmer Gavit of the New York Evening Post; and if the first of his series of articles now being published in that paper is any criterion he should command attention for some period to come...
...career of this "stormy petrel" of politics has been one to inspire both respect and fear. Beginning as an uneducated bandit of Manchuria, he rose rapidly to the command of the "hung hutze" or banditti, by force of personality. After aiding Japan in the war with Russia he surrendered to the Chinese government on very favorable terms. His followers became government troops and his promotion to the post of Military Governor was rapid, partially by virtue of good service to the Republic and partly no doubt by reason of the continued loyalty of his troops to their leader...
...English A" whatever it may be called and even as it stands today--is the Harvard course in self-understanding, self-command, self-expression. At the outset of the Freshman's work at Harvard, it introduces him to the box of tools that he is to use here and tells him how, or makes sure that he knows how, to use them. It tells him where headquarters is, and how to get there to find out from the best authorities what he needs to know. It goes, and should go, to the roots of the classification and efficiency of knowledge...
...Downing Street" and "the Glass of Fashion" are being widely discussed as something more worth while than the effervescence of "the Grandmother of the Flapper" or the diaric bombast of Colonel Repington there comes another books from the pen of A Gentleman With a Duster. It may not command such a broad audience solely with religious personality and "the rather ignoble situation of the Church in the affections of men", but an eclectic public will appreciate the earnestness of the man even if it doesn't agree with his views...