Word: commander
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...undoubtedly the greatest testimony of the success of the society during the past year. The lectures by members of the Faculty, which are to be continued this winter, were highly instructive, in a popular as well as a scientific sense. Moreover, the apparatus which is now at the command of the society, offers a rare opportunity for all those interested in any branch of flight by means of planes. In one year the Aeronautical Society has won a place beside the largest aero clubs of this country...
...second factor is the captain. Under this heading I place his qualities of leadership, his command over men, his powers of discipline, his ability to establish and maintain an esprit de corps, his forcefulness, his insight, and finally his finally his common sense. We have had more than one case at Harvard, in the last twenty years, of the choice of an unsuitable captain mainly because he was popular--'a good fellow,' so to speak--one whom every one liked. It is a great mistake. She has made it conspicuously on two occasions, but it is written down that that...
...compose the Council were the most representative, it is by no means certain that there were enough of them to act wisely and justly on behalf of the entire student body. This consideration points to a larger membership as necessary if the Council is to command respect and consideration for its decisions...
...refused to bow. But a somewhat irregular education suited well a nature which was always fretted by routine and profited by whatever was unusual, diverse, and expressive of individual character. In his youth he attended a Lycee in France and afterwards the University of Geneva, there gaining an unusual command of French. His German be acquired a few years later at the University of Berlin. In 1862-64 he was in the Lawrence Scientific School; then for four years in the Harvard Medical School, from which, two years later, he received the degree of M. D. He studied with Agassiz...
...thorough command of his subject unless in addition to knowing and thinking about it he can express himself; and for this reason the theses now extensively used are among the most valuable part of our undergraduate education; but it is not improbable that they would be more effective if their use was more systematic. Theses are now so numerous, and come in all the courses so nearly at the same time, that they are often hurriedly and carelessly written...