Word: major
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With the exception of the matchless Guynemer, no aviator has been better known to Americans than Major Raoul Lufbery, formerly of the Lafayette Escadrille. The names of even more successful fighters--Nungesser, Ball, and Bishop--fail to give the thrill that comes with the mention of Lufbery, the soldier of fortune and the incarnation of American dash and spirit. The greatest of the Americans who composed the Lafayette Escadrille, he has been among the greatest aviators in all the armies. Even the French, with their wealth of illustrious names to choose from, have called him "the incomparable pilot." No tribute...
...great many people Major Henry Lee Higginson's retirement as the patron of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will seem to be something very near a tragedy. It will seem so not merely because this public-spirited American, a veteran of the Civil War, a discriminating lover of music, and a wise user of wealth, ceases to be the chief supporter of the great orchestra he founded 37 years ago, but because his retirement comes at a time when he has been associated with the defence of the orchestra's conductor, Karl Muck, who has been arrested and interned...
...will be hard for people to dissociate Major Higginson from this episode. It is most unfortunate, for there have been few men in America whose patriotism, whose virile modesty, has been so exemplary. At Harvard his name will be always associated with Soldiers Field, the University's athletic ground, and with the Harvard Union, the University's great democratic club and centre of college activities. -The Outlook...
...meet, under existing circumstances, in any other way. Yet at best, they are only a partial substitute for those deeper laid foundations of an officer's efficiency which are possible only with years of training and upon a program of well-rounded development such as Princeton's commandant, Major John A. Pearson, U. S. A., has provided. It is the more nature advantages which Princeton now brings within reach of, those young men who desire them and who will undertake the courses of study and discipline necessary to their attainment. As preparation for service in this war, and as extension...
...Marine Flying Force operates in conjunction with the Navy, but it flies only land machines at this time and no change to seaplanes is anticipated. A small number of application blanks, and further details about enrollment, may be obtained at the CRIMSON Office, or by mail from Major-General Commandant, U. S. Marine Headquarters, Washington...