Word: commandment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...letter ends with the statement that "we know as certainly as we know anything that the language of big guns alone is able to command respect for any nation." Does Germany, the country of big guns, command the respect of the world? It was not so long ago that an even more cynical militarist, Napoleon, made a similar statement, "God is on the side of the heaviest artillery...
...aggregation. This is more commendable as the nine has had several severe set-backs to contend with. Captain Ayres was taken sick and has not played all spring. Coach Sexton resigned in the middle of the season. Fripp, who was holding down third base got scarlet fever. Haughton took command as coach and Hardwick was made captain and to their efforts the team's success is due. Their efforts deserve all the backing which can be given them...
...machine-gun company in the 8th Infantry and it is proposed to form this company from students of the University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Technically, the men will be detailed to other companies in the regiment, but in reality they will constitute a separate company under the command of its own officers and fulfilling the duties required of all regular companies in the United States Army. Equipment will be issued to all enlisting, and besides the regular drilling and work in military tactics, expert, instruction will be given in the use of the Benet-Mercier machine gun which...
Captain Franklin J. Burnham of the Regimental Commissary Department, will be aided by Lieutenant W. W. Austin in the command of the newly organized company, both men being commissioned offers in the U. S. Army, Lieutenant William Renwick, a graduate of the Law School, who presented the Benet-Mercier machine-gun to the State, and who has, in addition, given much of his time to the practical demonstration of this powerful offensive weapon, will teach the men the mechanical workings of the instrument...
...commemorated by the tablets in Memorial Hall. He described scenes of daring and bravery, and the hardships and privations of the soldiers. The battles were seldom marked by personal animosity, but the army fought as a unit, every man putting forth all the effort, all the courage he could command for the common defense and welfare of his country...