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...Victoria Cross), a bluff, towering New Zealander who swam the Gulf of Saros o Gallipoli in 1915, dragging a raft of lares in a diversionary tactic against the Turks, in World War II led Imperial troops in Libya, bloody Crete and Italy, where he once squelched a U.S. genral's complaint that New Zealanders never saluted with the crack, "Try waving at them and they'll wave back," returned home to serve as New Zealand's hugely popular Governor General from 1946 to 1952; following an internal hemorrhage; in Windsor, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 12, 1963 | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

...short-term remedy to the "inadequacy of present facilities" the Committee suggested enlargement of the Dean's Discretionary Fund to an "effective level." It listed genral grants and bequests as possible sources of revenue for the increase...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: Student Council Committee Report urges New Extra Curricular Center | 4/25/1961 | See Source »

...United States Army has promised to address the club on December 13 at 8.30 o'clock on "The Work of the General Staff and of the Military Intelligence Department of the Army." This speech will be illustrated with maps and slides. Colonel Mason, who is Situation Officer of the Genral Staff Corps, helped organize the Intelligence Department in this country, and was sent to France to work with the General Staff there, making a specialty in that branch of the service called positive intelligence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD CLUB ASSEMBLES TO PASS HIGGINSON RESOLUTION | 12/5/1919 | See Source »

...piece. "The Importance of Being a Sport," by H. E. Porter, remind us of one of the best Advocate periods,--some fifteen years ago, when Mr. Flandran and his contemporaries were describing Harvard Types." But with this difference today the dissecting of the victim seems kindlier; the sareasm almost genral...

Author: By T. T. Baldwin, | Title: Review of Current Advocate | 5/24/1909 | See Source »

...from any exception to the justice of the award. Nothing could be a greater proof of the efficiency of Mr. Jones' work toward eradicating the old-time rant and rage in speaking than the speaking of last evening. Self containment was the most notable characteristic of the speakers in genral. Although some unnaturalness in gesture and attitude was manifest, this arose rather from a lack of individual practice and from distinctive peculiarities than from any defect in the system at present pursued in the college. And yet we cannot but think that the degree of excellence reached in the speaking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/15/1885 | See Source »

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