Word: ever
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...make even a simple announcement without prolonged hand clapping. Few commanding officers have made such a quick, positive, unanimous appeal to the men under them. He was simple, alert, intelligent, straight-forward, kind, with fire and spirit underneath ready to enforce obedience, if it was possible that anyone could ever disobey him. Many a young officer in France today is the better for having as his ideal of what an American officer should be Lieutenant Colonel Shannon. The graduates of the Harvard 1917 summer military camp and the University itself owe him a great debt. His last words...
...concerns us all the more, therefore, to take care that all of the work which we do shall be our best and nothing else. The spectacular deeds of the battlefield are indeed an inspiration to equal achievement on our part, but it is also true that but few ever blundered into heroism. To most men it comes as a result of the ability to think quickly and act intelligently. Our work in the S. A. T. C. and the Naval Unit is for the most part training toward that end; the coming hour exams are in the nature...
...example of such a man should keep us from ever being complacently satisfied with what we are doing to win the war. We are all doing, our bit, but very few our utmost. John Gallishaw's "bit" at Gallipoli surpasses what many even think of doing, but he did more, his utmost. When anyone believes that his labor is as much as can be expected of any human being, it will be an inspiration to recall the work of this...
...Unit is so far the largest established. At present the enrolment in the S. A. T. C. is divided as follows: artillery, 600; naval unit, 500; laboratory corps, 300; signal corps, 200; and medical unit about 100. The university's exactions of the entering student are as strict as ever and it has declined to admit any who have not passed the college entrance board examinations...
...Columbia all dormitories have been converted into barracks and the registration there will probably be the cause of the largest registration the university ever had. Besides the regular military work, Columbia has set itself the task of training skilled engineers in a two-year course. The new course will take up all branches of engineering and will be open to students with the customary high school education. Naturally it will run through the four quarters of the year. Under the present arrangements the new engineers will be given a special status with the regular...