Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first volume of the series, to be published next fall and now in the press, is President Alexander Meiklejohn's "The Liberal College," a collection of his papers and addresses on educational problems, which will command much attention. Two other books are nearly ready for publication: Professor John F. Genung's "The Life Indeed,' his last and perhaps most characteristic work, which was found among his papers after his death, and Professor Anson D. Morse's "Parties and Party Leaders," a collection of his best political essays, which were published in various periodicals. Other volumes are in preparation
...assigned to the battery, which is to fire the salute to General Pershing, put in two hours of gun drill at the Freshman gymnasium. Four gun sections have been formed, which will be under the command of Captain Daniels, who is assisting Captain Goetz...
...whether Mr. Palmer has any right to apply the words "unfit" and "unfair" to the judges who were selected. Surely their prominence in the community would not lead us to suspect that he is right. All three of the gentlemen in question are well known, and would seem to command the respect and confidence of their fellow citizens. Their disqualifications for such a position seem to have occurred only to Mr. Palmer. His first specification is that they are all New Englanders. This is not quite true literally as Dean Albers is a native of Illinois. It is true, however...
...said, "is a combination of the spirit of devotion to duty, of the spirit of valor, and of the spirit of sacrifice; furthermore, it is my belief that Colonel J. A. Shannon exemplifies, more than any other officer I met in France, this spirit. While in command of the 109th and 112th Divisions he displayed extraordinary ability of leadership; he was always calm and resourceful and a great inspiration to his officers and men. In his loss the Americans lost one of the most brilliant of its young officers...
Although he was regularly an assistant chief of staff to General Pershing, on one occasion he was detailed to the front. In the Argonne Drive in 1918, he was temporarily given the command of the 28th Division, and led it through that crucial period successfully...