Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...competent captain or an efficient lieutenant requires not only a theoretical knowledge by study, but also a practical knowledge by actual experience. When an officer gives a command he should know it is properly executed, and should be able to show his men how it should be executed; he can only do this after being properly instructed himself. Therefore I say that a good part of the allotted time should be devoted to practical instruction. I mean drill. All-other reason and a vital one is, that an officer should be capable of estimating intelligently the physical capabilities...
There are at present seven sections serving with the French army and two others ready to go out as soon as the necessary drivers are obtained. One of these sections, commanded by Lovering Hill '10 who has been given a lieutenant's commission in the French army, has recently gone to Salonika after 18 months service in Alsace and in the Verdun region. A. B. Mason '08, Carleton Burr '13 and H. M. Luckley '10 are in command of units in the Verdun. Alsace and Somme sectors respectively...
After the defeat of last year at the hands of Cornell, Saturday's overwhelming victory was a sweet morsel for Harvard men. It was evident throughout the game that Haughton once again is in command of his men. The result was a great tribute to a great leader, who has made Harvard proud of her place in the world of football. It was no less a tribute to the fighting team which has found itself. The odds against Yale begin to rise...
...have to separate at the end of October when all the troops and ourselves move down to the plains (Gharial has ten feet of snow quite frequently and no one stays here but the nomad tribesmen). But for the present the two of us are in joint command of the first army Y. M. C. A. on the frontier...
...recent act of Congress provides extensively and thoroughly for the building up of a corps of trained officers to command our reserve forces in time of war. For this purpose an officers reserve corps is created, which will be composed mainly of young men specially trained at colleges, military schools and camps. At certain military schools units of the Junior Division of the reserve officers training corps will be estabalished. At colleges and universities where the curriculum prescribed requires a four years course for an academic degree there will be one or more units of the senior division...