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Three other independents, John J. Foley, Edward A. Sullivan, and Francis L. Sennott dislike Atkinson. Reportedly, Foley is conducting a movement to enlist Karl Compton, president of M.I.T., as his successor...
This small number has its advantages in the lecture rooms at Goddard Hall. On the average, seminars hold eight to ten students. The largest lectures, basic courses in the Development of International Organization and International Economic Relations, enlist 28 to 30 students...
Perhaps the most extraordinary act of his life was his decision, in 1922, to chuck the world's honors and enlist under a pseudonym in the R.A.F. It took six months for Lawrence to be discovered and tossed out-the Air Ministry considered his enlistment alarmingly unconventional. But in those six months Lawrence had captured all the impressions he needed for a corrosive study of barracks life. Later, he talked his way back into the R.A.F. as Aircraftman T. E. Shaw (he took the name legally), and claimed to wish no other life. But before his death...
...Jenkins splashed ashore with the Engineers on D-day at Lingayen Gulf. He landed in Japan later in 1945-"just a few days after MacArthur," stayed there in the U.S. occupation. In 1949, having already served one extra hitch with the Eighth Army, it seemed impossible to re-enlist on a permanent peacetime basis. Army regulations normally set the maximum re-enlistment age at 35, plus the years already spent in federal service. Jenkins was 27 years short of qualifying...
...because they believe the force behind the authority is no longer there. While the Western powers still hold great authority under the occupation, they now fear to use it. Since we are dedicated to the setting up of free democratic institutions and we are trying to enlist voluntary German cooperation, the big stick...