Word: major
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...management of the dormitories will be vested in a student board, the members of which were elected by the dormitory occupants last evening. The actual administration of the dormitories in their hotel aspect will be in the hands of a faculty committee consisting of Dean Alfred E. Burton, chairman; Major E. T. Cole and Horace S. Ford, the bursar of the Institute. Technology not only furnishes the rooms with heat, light, hot and cold water, and with showers in the adjacent lavatories, but it also equips them with the necessary furniture and looks after the laundry work of the room...
...present the total reaches slightly over 450. If the 500 mark is reached the United States government will send two non-commissioned officers to the university to assist the major now in charge in forming a battalion. The course as outlined, will begin about the middle of November. The drills will be held outside whenever the weather permits. During inclement and cold weather the nearly armory will be used. The first two years of the course will be given towards the work required for reserve officers. The course requires for reserve officers. The course requires two hours a week...
...Corps at the University and elsewhere the CRIMSON has asked several prominent army officers to express their opinions as to the ultimate value of the proposed plan, and to make suggestions as to the most practical methods of conducting such a course. In this connection the following letter from Major-General Samuel S. Sumner, U. S. A., retired...
...presented by the attendance at the memorial service in Appleton Chapel yesterday, was little better than humiliating. That a service to commemorate those of our University who have died on the field should draw barely enough to fill a third of the Chapel is a terrible indictment of the majority of the University. For it shows that our joyous, carefree, trifling population were so occupied with themselves over their little businesses that they failed completely to grasp the significance of the event. They lost one of the very few opportunities given them to show that they are alive and sensitive...
Another short address was given by Major Henry Lee Higginson '55. In his speech he extolled the spirit, the bravery and the sacrifice of the men who gave their lives for a cause in which they thoroughly believed. He instanced several experiences in the Civil War to show the heroic character of a soldier who gives up his life in battle. He said, "These men have performed a great sacrifice. They fought because they loved freedom and hated oppression. Our country mourns the loss of their lives...