Word: enlisting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grenfell has been called "the Knight Errant of the North" and two generations of U. S. school and college men, among whom he visits often to enlist funds and volunteers, have marveled at his adventures with ship and dog-sledge...
...made himself a rich lawyer by marrying the daughter of a political boss. Unsatisfied in his desire to live thoroughly and without compromise, he leaves his wife and goes to another girl in whom he has seen the possibility of a deeper relationship, tells her that he will enlist and come back to her after the War. Thus he fulfills the essential vigor of his character, ceases to be a spectator, joins the big show. Author McCready has the ability to tell a swift story swiftly, to make events and people assume spasmodic vitality. His writing is not polished...
...afternoon. George Abbott '95, formerly chairman of the Baseball Advisory Committee, will have charge of gathering together an alumni team. Last year, after a bad start in the first inning, the Harvard graduates played the University nine practically to a standstill. An effort will be made by Abbott to enlist the services of Mahan to pitch for the alumni...
...strange figure, with his sword and black armor in the company of the saints. He was in life a captain. Born of heathen parents, he turned to Christ and became a catechumen. His parents forced him to give up the thought of serving God and made him enlist in the army of France. One day, quartered at Amiens, he met a naked beggar on the road and divided his cloak with him, immediately afterward beholding a vision of Christ who acknowledged from heaven this act of charity to himself "on the part of Martin,* still a catechumen." In the picture...
...behooves us, therefore, to go ahead with the work of preparing them for ultimate nationhood. This means to govern the Islands efficiently, to create a colonial service which will enlist competent men in the lower positions--men of the type who went to the Islands in the days of Cameron Forbes, ready to sacrifice their lives, if need be, in order to serve the Filipinos. It means giving future governors the power to administer constructively. It means investing money, establishing farm schools, and inaugurating a campaign to introduce modern agricultural methods. It means developing roads and inter-island communications...