Word: major
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...telegram has been received at Military headquarters here from Major-General Barnett, Chief of the Marine Corps, urging the enlistment of discharged soldiers for service overseas this summer. Such enlistments are for a period of four years, with notation on service record that men are to be discharged on their return to the United States in the fall. No definite promise of return and discharge in time for the opening days of College next fall, however, can be given...
Shay has had two-years experience with major and minor league clubs. In 1916 he played short-stop on the Chicago "Cubs" and the following year he played the same position on the St. Joseph team of the Western League. Before coming to the University as coach, he played with the Charlestown Navy Yard team...
...crew is at present seated as follows: bow, Lieut, C. J. Coe, Yale; 2, Captain Royal Pullen, University of Washington; 3, Captain Louis, Penny, University of California; 4, Major Paul Withington '09; 5, Lieut. J. A. Jeffries '15; 6, Major Herman L. Rogers, Yale; 7, Lieut. J. Howard McHenry, Yale; stroke Captain Douglas Kingsland; coxswain, Lieut. Guy Gale, University of California...
...later became head of the State Department under President Roosevelt. As Ambassador to France he served for three years with great distinction. An advocate of preparedness, he strongly supported General Wood's Plattsburg Officers' Training Camp System. Attending the first Plattsburg business man's camp, he became a major in May, 1919, and returned from France after the armistice as a Colonel on General Pershing's Staff. During the last few years Colonel Bacon has been serving his third term as Overseer of the University; and he has been a familiar figure about the Yard on Class Day and other...
...editors, whose experience will be a valuable asset in issuing the new pictorial. The benefits will be mutual, for, though the Illustrated will go out of business as such, its place will be filled by the CRIMSON Supplement in which the former paper's staff will have a major interest; and the scheme enables the CRIMSON to take a great step forward, full of possibilities for the future...