Word: major
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...charts have the endorsement of General Leonard Wood who went over them carefully with his aide, Lieut. Osmun; and many other Regular Army officers have spoken highly of them, including Major Constant Cordier, recently the commandant of the Harvard Regiment...
...Board of Overseers of the University have just announced the Visiting Committees for the coming year. Among the new names found on this list are those of Major General Leonard Wood, M. D., '84, and Assistant Secretary of State F. D. Roosevelt '04, whose names appear on the Committee on Military Science and Tactics; W. C. Forbes '92, Ex-Governor of the Philippines on the Committee to visit the Botanic Garden; C. L. Freer, of Detroit, Michigan, on the Committee to visit the Fogg Art Museum and Division of Fine Arts; Judge F. J. Swayze '79, of the Supreme Court...
That a large majority of the University's athletes of recent years have enlisted their services in some branch of war activity is apparent from figures collected by the University committee on war records. Of all the major and minor sport captains elected from the class of 1917 there is not one who is not now in national service...
...Church '20 and N. S. Walker '20, Freshman football and hockey leaders last year, the only major-sport captains elected from the class or 1920, were in the Naval Reserve last summer. Church has been detailed to the School for Ensigns, while Walker has returned to College on leave of absence...
...Percy '18 and W. H. Wheeler '18 were the only captains elected for the major sport teams of 1917-1918, and both hold commissions in Federal Service. Wheeler, who was to have been captain of the football team this fall, took the three-months course at Annapolis, and at the close was made an ensign in the Naval Reserve. Percy, hockey captain elect, is now a lieutenant in the Marines...