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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...64th Infantry Brigade, the 4th Marine Brigade. He was named Major General. Late in July, he took command of the 2nd Division. Who needs to recite the familiar roster of its glories? Belleau Wood, Vaux, Saint Mihiel, Blanc Mont, Argonne-Meuse offensive. It suffered 24,000 casualties, the greatest of any U. S. division. It captured 12,000 prisoners-one-quarter of the entire number taken by the U. S. Army. Now Lejeune, the gallant fighter, the able tactician, the great disciplinarian, Commandant of a Corps which he helped to make famous, is trying to buy that Corps its home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Quantico | 12/8/1924 | See Source »

...average attendance at the University football games this year was the greatest in the history of the college, according to the official attendance figures announced yesterday by the H. A. A. The total attendance, 331,883, has only been exceeded by the record of the 1922 season, when over 339,000 people passed through the gates. But as that season nine games were played instead of this year's list of eight games, the present season may be said to have the greatest interest in the University's football thus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AVERAGE FOOTBALL CROWDS LARGEST EVER IN STADIUM | 12/6/1924 | See Source »

...greatest international enemies of Soviet Russia are the communists in foreign countries. In an excess of zeal they consistently do their bit to block Russia's efforts to reestablish herself among nations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEWHISKERED BUGBEARS | 12/6/1924 | See Source »

...successful man will admit that he could never have achieved success without learning from the very start to use his time in the most efficient and economical way. This it seems to me is one of the greatest and most lasting benefits to be derived from such a competition as that of the CRIMSON...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON OFFERS 1927 LAST OPPORTUNITY | 12/2/1924 | See Source »

...issues of: "The Friend; a Literary, Moral, and Political Weekly Paper, excluding personal and party politics and the events of the day. Conducted by S. T. Coleridge, of Grasmere, Westmorland." These papers, dating from June 1, 1809, to March 16, 1810, are of the utmost rarity, and of the greatest importance to any student of English literature at that period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY GETS RARE COLERIDGE MANUSCRIPTS | 12/2/1924 | See Source »

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