Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among other members of the Commonwealth India's position had created powerful misgivings. From South Africa, fiery ex-Prime Minister, Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, had warned: "Clearly India wishes to retain as an independent republic . . . some of the benefits and advantages of Commonwealth connection . . . My personal view is that there is no middle course between Crown and republic, between in & out of the Commonwealth ... If in some nebulous and muddled way you can be both in & out of it, the whole concept of Commonwealth goes and what remains is mere name without substance, the grin without...
...also was used to lubricate the famous Tree Exercises on occasion. This tree stood between Harvard Hall, Hollis, and Holden Chapel; around 1815, seniors used to gather around it to sing and give cheers for such individuals as the president or a favorite janitor at the direction of the marshal. Later on, all classes joined hands and whirled in dizzy circles around the tree, "till all the college is swaying in the unwieldy ring," as Lowell reported it. A wreath of flowers was hung from one branch, and there were horse battles among the crowd to reach the wreath...
Daiel B. Ray '49, Second Marshal and co-chairman of the Publicity Division of the Class Day Committee, warned all men planning to graduate in June that application of caps and gowns at the Cooperative Society have to he made before closing time tomorrow...
...upperclassman committee headed by John M. Team '50, First Marshal of Phi Beta Kappa, will hold the first of a series of three Phi Beta Kappa sponsored advising sessions for freshmen tonight in the Union Library...
Brookwood, England hailed the battle-scarred winners of a father & son golf tournament, Field Marshal Earl Wavell, who lost his left eye in World War I and his son, Major Viscount Keren, who lost his left arm in Africa...