Word: major
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...chief departure from the form of previous Red Books that will be made this year is the division of the book into several different sections. The groups in their order will be the major sports, the minor sports, class social activities, class scholarship, dormitory activities and military activities. These divisions will be separated from each other by full page cuts on some subject relative to the material dealt with in the section...
...candidates for the Board of Overseers comprise the Governor of New Hampshire, the Police Commissioner of New York City, the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, a member of the Federal Trade Commission, a major-general of the army, a bishop, a clergyman who is also a schoolmaster, a judge, a physician, a man of letters, an architect, and a representation of business...
...because everyone understands criticism as an expression of little more than personal opinion. The authority of it and the respect we give to it rests on the individual. Mr. Wright, then, who indeed does not hesitate to state his views with perfect assurance in his criticism of "Major Pendennis" (appearing yesterday in the CRIMSON) is to be congratulated. It is seldom that we find such a strong-minded young...
...went to "Major Pendennis" at the Hollis Theatre with feelings of the warmest expectation. Thackery as a personality and a social philosopher I cannot abide, his point of view being expressive of the mixture of ignorance, snobbery, humbug, and conceit which has made the British Empire in more than one sense the wonder of the world. But as an atmospheric artist Thackery is quite otherwise, and it was this quality of atmosphere one expected to encounter in Mr. Langdon Mitchell's adaptation of "Pendennis." Superficially it is attained, owing to the well known talent in production of Mr. Iden Payne...
...Their names are as follows: Major Azan, infantry, head of the mission; Major de Reviers de Mauny, infantry; Captain Dupont, artillery; Captain de Jarny, artillery; Lieutenant Morize, infantry; Second Lieutenant Giraudoux, infantry...