Word: manual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chief, a Louisianan and not a West Pointer, entered military service in the Spanish War as Captain of volunteers. In the Philippines his men were once demoralized by peppery fire while fording a stream. Drawing them up beneath a sheltering hill, Lieut. Fuqua drilled them in the rudimentary manual of arms until their nerves were steadied. Again, plunging through Philippine underbrush, he found an orphan Filipino being flogged by his uncle. The Lieutenant bought the boy for 30 pesos ($17). gave him freedom, education, employed him as personal servant...
...York Manual" is a fifteenth century manuscript written in English and Latin and bearing the early musical notations for hymns. Other interesting volumes are a prayer book printed in London in 1634, including "Some particular formes of Prayer for the English Colonies and Plantations in New England, Virginia, etc." and a Bible which belonged to Samuel Johnson and contains several chapters in his handwriting. The designs for the illustrations of the latter work are taken from Durer's series of prints entitled. "The Apocalypse." Original impressions of this entire series are also on display...
...Class Orator, Lawrence Trevor Grimm, is from Los Angeles, and prepared at Manual Arts High. He is vice-president of the Harvard Union and president of the Debating Union. Alan Russell Blackburn of Boston is the Ivy Orator. He prepared at Hackley and is president of the Lampoon. In his Freshman year, he played on the soccer team...
...called Manual of Silent Method-finger-sign language-was brought to the U. S. by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, who went to Europe in 1815 to study education of the deaf, and for whom Gallaudet College, founded in 1864 at Washington, was named. The Clarke School, founded in 1867, had as its first trustee-president the late famed Alexander Graham Bell, whose wife was deaf. It was while experimenting on sound-amplification to aid the deaf that Dr. Bell invented the telephone, in 1876. One Jeanie Lippitt, now Mrs. William B. Weeden of Providence, R. I., was the first...
...them who left West Point well, was in good health when the corps entered the town, after a march of nearly 250 miles, over a mountainous country, and having for the most part of the time very bad weather. What we have seen of their police, movements, manual and position satisfies us that the high praise bestowed upon them in every place through which they have passed has been realized, and fully justifies the best expectations of the public...