Word: june
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...credit for the time spent in military service have been evolved at both Princeton and Yale. At Yale the arrangement has been to give men returning from service a third of a year's credit for satisfactory military work. This decision will enable 1919 men who left college in June of 1918 to graduate with their regular class, and those who left the year before to graduate in June of 1920. A proportionate adjustment is being made for the class...
...American Colonies in their struggle for independence--Benjamin Franklin. The debt we owe France can never be paid. It is not alone a National debt. It is also a personal debt of Americans to Frenchmen. This is best shown by a letter of Franklin addressed to President Washington, June...
Lieutenant Colonel Shannon was born at Granite Falls, Minn., May 25, 1879. He received his early education in the public schools of Duluth, and was there prepared by private tutors for the entrance examination at West Point. During his stay at West Point from June, 1898 to June, 1903, he was cadet corporal and cadet lieutenant, vice-president of his class, and an athlete of prominence. He won his "A" as quarterback of the 1902 team. Upon his graduation he became second lieutenant of cavalry, and later received the following promotions: first lieutenant cavalry, March 11, 1911; captain cavalry, August...
From May, 1905, to June, 1908, Colonel Shannon served in the Philippine Islands, and from 1911 to 1914 took part in several expeditions against the hostile Moros in Mindanao. He was present at the assault and capture of the famous Moro stronghold at Bud Dajo. On September 2, 1908, he was married to Miss Imogene Hoyle, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel (now Brigadier-General) Eli D. Hoyle. He served in Mexico with the Villa Punitive Expedition from March, 1916, to February, 1917, and was selected by General Pershing to command the famous Apache Indian Scouts. Soon after his return from Mexico...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences who is to be the Harvard exchange professor to the Sorbonne, will sail from New York Feb. 8. He will not decide upon the subject of his lectures until he reaches Paris, but his work will begin immediately on arrival and continue until June. No announcement has yet been made as to who will be the successor of Prof. Lucien Levy-Bruhi, the French exchange professor at Harvard, who recently resigned...