Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...their lessons will later much more readily learn and hold fast the duties of the soldier or officer, when the actual need arrives. On no account let us fight unless forced in honor to do so, and then let us fight with all the courage and strength we can command...
...Union tonight at 8 o'clock. Few men are so well qualified to speak on the Navy and its relation to the welfare of the nation as is Admiral, Chadwick. His naval service goes back to the Civil War, and extends through the Spanish War, when he commanded the flagship New York in the battle of Santiago. His experience includes almost every branch of the Navy, as well as seven years as the naval attache of the United States in London. He was one of the noted captains under Admiral Sampson, and was in command of the ship which...
...hopeless to remind, men that the purpose of the series is to extend acquaintance, and command them therefore to commence extension, for man is not the sort of animal to respond to such behests. It is not hopeless to remind certain of them that they are guests of honor and that according to the laws of politeness they should attend. Tonight Thayer Hall and, as always, men living outside the Yard, are particularly bidden to the Hollis-Matthews entertainment...
...present inquiry by the Student Employment Bureau, of which an outline appears in another column, has for its purpose the placing at the command of the Office more completely the key to to a not insignificant industrial situation in the University. Co-operation on the part of all who can aid the work is not only the duty but the privilege of each man whose knowledge can serve the end. The Office is working for the student; it is in line for the student to work for the other fellow by making the system in use at the Employment Office...
There is an article in the current number of the Illustrated that should command the careful attention of every man really interested in the welfare of Harvard, and that article is Mr. Farrington's earnest plea for "A Harvard Press Association." Harvard is peculiarly unfortunate in being placed in the near vicinity of the Boston newspaper world, for while most of the papers are really desirous of printing the right kind of news about Harvard there are one or two which consistently persist in publishing false and malicious stories concerning the student life in the University. Although these papers...