Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Classes will be formed under the immediate command of their respective officers, either in columns of two or four, depending on the number present. Students joining the procession must wear dark clothes. Academic dress will not be required...
...Senior is sufficiently in advance of his advisee to command respect for the counsel which he offers, yet the difference is not so great as to defeat the aim of the system -- to provide a man in the University who will aid the Freshman in all times of need. If conscientiously carried out, this system will become the means of personal contact between the College, and its newest members, and will prevent the feeling that the are allowed by the University to sink or swim as they...
...small opportunity would be given for travel or the observation of general conditions overseas, except from the very limited viewpoint of the single village in which the enlisted student would probably be stationed for guard-duty. In addition to this, such scant faith is apparently placed by the High Command in the loyalty and integrity of the American soldier, that he is denied the right to hold the slightest communication with the conquered inhabitants of the area of occupation in Germany...
...apprentices for deck officers' positions. Henry Howard, director of the Shipping Board's recruiting service, states that there never has been a time in the history of American shipping when the demand for merchant crews was so great as it is now. The positions, on going to sea, command salaries of from $55 to $75 a month, according to the rating, and in addition, board and living quarters are furnished free...
...become an officer. Many of the best officers that I have known have not been college men, and I have known many college men who did not have the officer's qualifications. An officer is not merely a student; his primary qualification is leadership, and the power to command. In my opinion no officer should be commissioned until he has seen service as an enlisted man, and come to understand the view-point of the enlisted man. If he shows ability as corporal or sergeant, it is fair to assume the he will show the same ability as an officer...