Word: major
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...heartily favor the establishment of a Field Artillery Training Unit at Harvard next year, and feel that an infantry unit should also have a place there." said Major-General Clarence R. Edwards in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "To be a successful infantry officer requires just as much training as to be a good artillery officer. In the artillery you deal with material, in the infantry with men, and to handle men well requires more training and experience than to fire a field piece or compute a range. I believe that the training of an infantry officer might...
...Major James Alfred Roosevelt '07 died aboard the transport Great Northern, which was due in New York yesterday, while on his way back from France to arrange for the reception of the 77th Division. He went over as a captain and became commander of the 302nd Ammunition Train. Major Roosevelt was a second cousin to the late Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and a nephew of President Lowell...
Shay has had two years' experience with major and minor league clubs. He went from Goddard Seminary in 1916 to join the Chicago "Cubs" as short-stop and worked with them throughout the season. The following winter he went to the St. Joseph club of the Western League. In that year, his batting average was .274, the highest of any short-stop in the league. He acted as captain of the team during part of the season. Shay joined the navy in December, 1917, and played with the Charlestown Navy Yard team during the following spring...
...resumed in October of this year. Provisions are made for two scholarships of three hundred pounds a year from each state in the Union. Candidates may try for appointments to Oxford either from the state in which they reside or the one in which they have received the major part of their education...
...coach in football for the fall of 1919. Dr. Albert H. Sharpe, Yale '02 M, comes to them from a coaching position at Cornell. There is to be a reorganization in the coaching system at Yale, and Dr. Sharpe is to be Director of Athletics, having supervision of all major and minor sports. Hr, himself in college days, was well known as a very excellent and versatile athlete. He not only played on the baseball and basketball teams, but played also on Yale's famous eleven, captained by F.G. Brown, which defeated Harvard...