Word: commander
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...officer must exercise self-control even under the most trying circumstances, even when someone has blundered. There will be a lot of mistakes made; we expect them; they are bound to happen. But when the game begins, do your command as it is given. Back your officer, back your country, back your Government. There must be team play, regardless of whether or not we think the command is the right...
...modern warfare, Captain Ian Hay Beith emphasized the new significance of the airplane. It has passed out of its period of experimentation and into a new sphere of deadly effectiveness--spying out the enemy's territory, directing artillery fire, raiding hostile encampments, and making surprise attacks impossible. Briefly, "the command of the air determines which side shall gain the victory...
...months, the same drill that is given to the enlisted recruits, and then those who demonstrate that they will make good officers, are sent to a cadet school for six or seven months of intensive training. Men who have completed the course in these cadet schools are put in command of reserve troops in England for a short period before being sent to the front...
Princeton was one of the first Institutions to pledge its resources to the nation. As soon as the break occurred in the relations with Germany, President Hibben formally put the entire mechanical equipment and apparatus of the university at the command of the Federal Government. This offer was immediately ratified by the faculty, and if the Princeton campus is wanted as a training camp, the Government...
...Revolutionary period there were only about one hundred and fifty students enrolled in Harvard College, most of whom were very much younger than the average college man of today, but no less ardent in their love of liberty. General Washington first took command of the assembled troops of New England before the walls of Harvard College, and later the soldiers were quartered in the dormitories. During this period Harvard was moved to Concord for fourteen months. The Faculty did all they could to help the officers, and so appreciated General Washington's work that after the evacuation of Boston...