Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...degree of LL.D. In 1886 he became an assistant surgeon in the United States Army, and began his brilliant career as a military leader. In 1899 he was appointed brigadier-general of the United States Army and in the same year was made military governor of Cuba. Four years later he was promoted to his present rank of major-general. Additional honor was shown him when, in 1910, he was made chief of staff, and again in 1914 when he was placed in complete charge of the Department of the East. Adjutant-general Cole who will also address the meeting...
...ambassador to Russia, died at his home at 124 Marlboro street, Boston, yesterday morning after a sudden attack of pneumonia. He was prominent in state and national affairs, taking active part in numerous political campaigns. In the Spanish American war he served with distinction as Inspector-General in Cuba. As ambassador to Russia from 1911 to 1913 he received the decoration of St. Alexander, one of the highest honors possible, from the Czar...
...awarded to Tallman C. Bookhout '15, of Roxbury, N. Y., and Lionel de Jersey Harvard '15, of London, England, as a result of the final round in Sanders Theatre last evening. Each speaker was given a prize of $30. The selections read by the winners were respectively, "Intervention With Cuba," by John M. Thurston, and "The Highwayman," by Alfred Noyes...
...Jean Sanchez Abreu, of Havana, Cuba; William Ellery Bright, Jr., of Waltham; Watson Case Emmet, of New York, N. Y.; Gordon Harrower, of Worcester; Kenneth McIntosh, of New York, N. Y.; Herbert Julius Salomon, of New York, N. Y.; Arthur Howard Sanborn, of Somerville...
...John T. Nichols, of the American Museum of Natural History of New York, will be the guest of honor of the Natural History Society at 52 Mt. Auburn street tonight at 8 o'clock. He will speak on the subject of "Killifish in Cuba, Florida, and elsewhere." Mr. Nichols has had wide experience in the southern seas, North Atlantic and Pacific, and is especially noted for his investigations of tropical fishes. At hearty invitation is extended to all members of the University...