Word: major
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...meeting of the Athletic Committee last night, it was decided to put hockey back in its former position as a major and formal University sport. In addition, the following tentative schedule for the Freshman seven was drawn up, and approved by the members of the committee. All games are to be played on the Charlesbank rink, unless otherwise stated...
...number of new managers and coaches for the major sports were appointed, and Ames Stevens '19, of Lowell, was named as acting track captain for the coming season. Lawrence Barberie Leonard '18, of Lynn, was appointed to represent the University at the meeting of the I. C. A. A. A. A. in New York on January 26. Other appointments of managers and coaches are: Cecil Dunmore Murray '19, of New York, N. Y., football manager; John Archibald Sessions '21, of Northampton, assistant football manager; Ford Hibbard '20, of Brooklyn, N. Y., baseball manager; Alexander Edgar Kirk '20, of Chicago...
...Dean Yeoman's office this evening at 8 o'clock, with Professor Greenough presiding. The policy of the University in regard to the matter of conducting athletic teams as in the past will be the most important question to be decided, while the arranging of schedules in all major sports for this spring and next fall also awaits the action of the Committee...
...cadet lieutenant, vice-president of his class, and an athlete of prominence. He won his "A" as quarterback of the 1902 team. Upon his graduation he became second lieutenant of cavalry, and later received the following promotions: first lieutenant cavalry, March 11, 1911; captain cavalry, August 15, 1916; major National Army, August 1917; and lieu tenant-colonel General Staff Corps, August...
...Pershing to command the famous Apache Indian Scouts. Soon after his return from Mexico Colonel Shannon was detailed as Professor of Military Science and Tactics at the University and was on duty here in the spring and summer of 1917. In August of that year he was assigned as major to the 42d ("Rainbow") Division at Camp Milis, N. Y.; in October he went overseas with it. Shortly after his arrival in France he was selected by General Pershing to organize and conduct the Personnel Bureau of the American Expeditionary Forces. In accepting this important position, he sacrificed his great...