Word: instructors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general study program which undergraduates have come to expect today-separate fields of concentration, divisional examinations, and the like. With this came a revival and vast extension of tutorial. Tutoring was now a function that any faculty member performed, not merely the title for the lowest form of instructor. During the '30s, 95 percent of the College received tutorial...
...became a colonel. Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur assigned him to Chicago as senior instructor of the Illinois National Guard. Marshall for the first time in his career protested the assignment. "George had a grey, drawn look which I had never seen before," recalled Mrs. Marshall. Pershing is said to have complained in vain to Franklin Roosevelt, but the assignment stood...
...late for World War I, Wedemeyer in 1936 was sent to study blitzkrieg tactics at the German War College in Berlin. The experience came in handy in World War II. His firsthand knowledge of the new Wehrmacht (before Pearl Harbor, he got a long letter from his old classroom instructor, Colonel General Alfred Jodl, explaining the Nazi breakthrough in France) made him a key planner in both the Mediterranean and Normandy campaigns, boosted him from lieutenant colonel to major general in two years. In 1944, when "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell was recalled, he took over command of all U.S. forces...
...calmly broke tradition by smoking during dinner, was calmly imitated by his guest of honor, King George VI. Frederik, proud of his un-kingly tattooed dragons and birds, picked up during his navy days, also had time to phone his "compliments" to an old friend, British Physical Training Instructor George Walsh who had added 6½ inches to the royal chest. Crowed Walsh: King Frederik is "the strongest monarch in history...
...Instructor in English Robert Chapman and Louis O. Coxe, co-authors of "Billy Budd," share top honors in Variety's poll of New York drama critics for "most promising new playwright of the 1950-51 season...