Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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General Wood left last night for Camp Funston, Kansas, where he is now in command...
...School at St. Johns Newfoundland, and was a special student at the University the first half of 1914-15, the second half of 1915-16, and throughout the year in 1916-17. He went to France with the draft army and was wounded. Later, he was transferred here, taking command of Company...
...officers was desirable,--hence, the teaching of military discipline by a strict observance of it was clearly necessary. Now the Nation needs civilian leaders, and every factor which hampers their preparation to fulfill this need is undesirable and represents a lack of foresight on the part of those in command...
Major C. S. Williams has been relieved of duty in connection with the University S. A. T. C., and is now assistant to the commandant of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology S. A. T. C. While stationed here Major Williams was second in command, and in addition was examining officer for officers' training schools...
Conditions at Yale University, as everywhere else, have been completely altered by the war-time requirements. Here, as in almost every college in the United States, an S. A. T. C. and a Naval Unit have been established; the Yale S. A. T. C. is commanded by Major S. A. Welldon, F. A., U. S. A., and the Naval Unit is commanded by Rear Admiral C. M. Chester, U. S. N., retired. Of the 1600 students enrolled in the university, almost half are in the artillery school; a large per cent of the rest are in the Naval Unit...