Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain Benyaurd Bourne Wygant, U.S.N., professor of Naval Science and Tactics, has just been ordered by the Bureau of Navigation of the Navy Department to the Puget Sound Navy Yard in Bremerton, Washington, to assume command of the U. S. S. Colorado, which is undergoing a general overhauling. Further orders from the Bureau of Navigation reveal that Captain Adolphus Watson, U.S.N., will relieve Captain Wygant of his duties with the Harvard Naval R. O. T. C. Unit...
Captain Wygant goes to sea after being in charge of the Naval Science Department for three years during which he has done much to raise the standard and efficiency of the course. His new command, the U. S. S. Colorado, now having regular inspection and repairs is one of the newest and best equipped ships in the Navy, as it is one of the three American battleships armed with 16 inch guns. Captain Wygant has an excellent record, has served under Admiral Sims throughout the war during which he was in command of the two destroyers, and engaged in convey...
...marking, with the object of directing the energy of the students toward those forms of effort that will be for them of the most permanent value; for, as in every other part of the University, the objective should be less acquiring familiarity with technical processes than a firm command of principles. The selection of the best candidates for admission is no simple matter; and in doing it college records alone do not suffice. So far as possible the men are personally seen. In fact members of the staff interviewed seventy-one per cent of the applicants, visiting eighty colleges...
Notorious malefactors do not command the attention of the American public because they have done evil, but because they represent values that catch the popular enthusiasm. Wealth has unquestionably been the reward of many such men; and wealth, whether in a Rockefeller, a Ford, or a Capone has gained the respect of the American public. The king pins of the underworld represent other achievements; and when their success is the result of "high-power organization," with a chief in Florida able to execute his will in Chicago, he wins the unthinking approval of the American public as does the broker...
...indeed the beloved leveret will frequent his castle no more, the university has suffered an irreplaceable loss. A nondescript jackrabbit might satisfy the vulgar and undiscriminating, but only the original leporine monarch or his direct descendant could command the loyalty of the legitimists...