Word: lee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...graduates within a few generations our colleges will be empty. Either that or we will have to Lower the requirements for entrance. A thousand Harvard graduates at the present birth-rate will be represented at the end of six by only 50 descendants--hardly enough to make a good lee club. But at the present birth-rate 1000 of some of the lower sections of the population will be represented by 100,000 descendantal. Our recent immigrants, no difference that race or country they come from, largely belong to this class...
...first British army, the "contemptibles", at Mons and at the Marne, and later held a very prominent position under the Chief of Staff of the British Army. Yet he seemed to fit perfectly into the office in the Widener Library stacks where he was studying several books on General Lee spread out before him on the desk. Someone once spoke of him as the "scholar in arms" and the name has stuck...
...become interested in Lee?", he said, leaning back in his swivel chair. "Thirty odd years ago, when I was a young chap, a rather prominent elderly gentleman of my acquaintance said that the greatest man he ever met was Robert E. Lee. That struck me, you know, for I had never heard of him before, and yet I knew that friend of mine had met Bismarck, Von Moltke, Gladstone and a dozen other great men. Robert E. Lee must have been a remarkable character to have impressed my friend so profoundly...
...Publish Life of Lee...
General Maurice admitted that he intended to publish a life of Lee very shortly which will include the lectures he is now giving at the Lowell Institute. He is thoroughly engrossed in his studies. He did not want to discuss Egypt or the League of Nations, or any political problems, although he is one of the most prominent British generals now living and takes an active interest in politics. He is staying with President and Mrs. Lowell at present...