Word: major
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...announced yesterday by the College Office that Assistant Professor Robert Matteson Johnston had been appointed full Professor of Modern History. Professor Johnston gave up his duties as instructor in the University in 1918 and was commissioned a major in the United States Army. He was detailed for duty with the Historical Section of the General Staff of the A. E. F. where he acted as chief until February, 1919, temporarily taking the place of the regular officer in charge. The Historical Section also forms the Operations Section of the Historical Branch of the War Department in Washington, and this Operations...
...essential drive, and a slackness among individual members in matters of team play and training is the record which the baseball squad has presented to the University during the past three weeks. It has been a number of years since Harvard has had to face such a major sport problem. We have hesitated for a long time before admitting that fact; there seems now but little doubt that it is, unfortunately, true...
Word has just been received from Paris that Major Arthur D. Hill, LL.B. '94, of the Judge-Advocate Department of the United States Army has been decorated by General Petain with the cross of the Legion of Honor Major Hill went to Tour, France, in January, 1918, where he was connected with the department of claims. After the signing of the armistice he was sent to Paris with the finance department, and is now on his way to Italy...
...choose a small group to act as trustees for the student body. Officers of every description are widely distributed throughout the four classes. The intensity of competition for all important positions automatically impose the necessary restrictions. For instance, Yale forbids--and Princeton proposes to--one man from holding two major sport managerships. Rarely, if ever, has there been a two "H" manager. The results of artificially limiting activities will be a decrease in competition, tending to lower the standards of the positions...
...Class A includes the more important and more exacting offices:-managers of the four major sport teams, Chairman and Business Manager of the Princeton-fan, Chairman of the Undergraduate Schools Committee, President of the Philadelphian Society, and Chairman of the Press Club...