Word: commander
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...requiring in the first year from all candidates for a degree a certain number of courses aggregating one-half or two-thirds of the whole. Every student who intends to go into business should know something about general economics, accounting, finance and business organization, and should also have a command of some of the foreign languages. When, however, the foundation has been laid in this way, students are allowed a free choice, subject to the condition, however, that their course be approved by the Director. The Director of the School is presumed to have a personal acquaintance with each...
...attained, yet enough enthusiasm was aroused and enough enlistments secured to justify the movement as a success. Considerably over a hundred new men were enrolled in one branch or the other. A hundred men may be equivalent to a hundred officers in time of war, enough to command three regiments. But the vital result of the week is not reflected in the number of enlistments; rather in the number of men interested. Preparedness Week has officially ceased, but there is no reason why enlistments should not continue in even greater volume, to pass the seven hundred mark and go beyond...
...members had rounded out their knowledge to such an extent as thoroughly to fit them for even the multifarious duties of the subaltern. Military science has progressed so much in recent years as to require the highest degree of training on the part of the officer. To exercise intelligent command of troops, to know how to lead and to care for men, to make brain and body meter with the greatest gain and the minimum loss, mean close study and constant application covering a period of years, not months...
...will hold a mass meeting for Plattsburg volunteers in the Boston Opera House Monday evening at 8.30 o'clock. William Cameron Forbes '92, former governor-general of the Philippines, will preside and the following will speak; Governor McCall, Major-General Leonard Wood, M.D. '84, George Wharton Pepper, and Lieutenant-Commander R. D. Evans. The latter is a son of "Fighting Bob" Evans and is in command of the entire naval cruise. No charge will be made for admission. Members of the University are cordially invited...
When the head of the Main Body reached the railroad crossing at Concord avenue, near Bay State road, Col. Cordier received information that hostile patrols had been sighted in the vicinity of Spy Pond. He immediately notified the Commanding Officer of the Advance Guard of this information, and the latter at once despatched an officer's patrol to reconnoitre in that direction. This occasioned a short halt of the column, but within fifteen minutes a motor-cyclist arrived with a message from the front stating that the hostile patrols had been repulsed and that the progress of the command need...