Word: generals
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University campaign committee, fifty thousand dollars is Harvard's contribution to the Red Triangle War Fund. It is true of all campaigns that more words of inveigling are directed toward the public than terms of praise after the goal has been reached. The present case, however, demands a general recognition of splendid work. The University has answered the call of this Y. M. C. A. fund in a way which has surpassed our fondest hopes. The subscription was not from a few, but from a great majority, so that we may extend a vote of thanks to the entire undergraduate...
...General Orders...
...When General Maude took command of the army of the Tigris, some months after the fall of Kut-el-Amara, he found that the most difficult problem facing him as he planned his advanced on Bagdad was the absolute lack of an effective system of rail communication. It was this condition which prevented the relief of Kut during the winter of 1916, the river transportation proving inadequate. Under the direction of the new commander a complete railroad system was built from the Persian Gulf to Amara, and in addition the British Army was reorganized on a basis superior to that...
...General Maude turned Mesopotamia from a war theatre of disappointments and disasters to one of great possibilities. Where so many British commanders failed, he made good. Heavy is the sudden loss of one who many believed would be England's second Kitchener...
...Tactics will review the Corps on Soldiers Field. This committee consists of ten members: George Baty Blake '93, Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04, Amos Tuck French '85, Langdon Parker Marvin '98, Samuel Parker, George Cheever Shattuck '01, William Davies Sohier '11, Eliot Wadsworth '98, Alexander Whiteside '95, and Major-General Leonard Wood, M.D., '84. Although all these men will not be able to be present, it is expected that most of them will be here on that date...