Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...delegation to the college men's Y. M. C. A. conference at Northfield last spring was the smallest we have sent in some years, consisting of only eleven men, three American and eight foreign students, under the leadership of J. O. Crane '21. However, other college delegations were reduced proportionately, so we need not feel that our poor showing was exceptional...
...Leonard Wood M.D. '84 was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for exceptionally meritorious service during the war by the War Department yesterday. The decoration was based on General Wood's service as a department, division and camp commander during the war. The citation says: "He has displayed qualities of leadership and professional attainments of a high order in the administration and training of his various commands, and has furthered in every way during the war the system of officers' training schools...
...years have elapsed since President Eliot, after forty years of active leadership of Harvard University, became President Emeritus. The third college generation since his retirement is nearing its completion; hence, it is natural that the undergraduate of the present day should fail to appreciate the full significance of the changes which President Eliot wrought in the University...
...reconstruction than those of any of the foreign colleges. In the first place, America has lost fewer of her young men than any other country engaged in the war, and also it is to her, as Mr. Wilson said recently in his Boston speech, that Europe looks for leadership in the present era of reconstruction...
...living college alumni of this country approximately 17 percent were in the service. On the other hand, of the living alumni and undergraduates of the University, Yale and Princeton, 36, 38, and 45 percent respectively were in the Army, Navy and auxiliary forces. Princeton's leadership is not great, when the large numbers of foreign students and men over military age in the graduate schools of the University, and to a lesser degree Yale, are taken into consideration. The University and Princeton each had approximately 53 per cent of their men in active service commissioned. Yale had 44 per cent...