Word: mentor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Infantry on Horseback. His eleven generals (not necessarily the best), from the Revolution's Nathanael Greene to Omar Bradley, include several that few readers ever heard of, e.g., Indian Fighter Richard Mentor Johnson and Grant's divisional commander, James Harrison Wilson. Each, says Pratt, operated on the simple basis that "nobody is going to win a battle until somebody goes in there on foot and wins it with a hand...
...much the same way, another amateur-turned-general, Richard Mentor Johnson, licked Tecumseh by using cavalry as mounted infantry. In the Civil War, two Northern generals, John Buford and Phil Sheridan, carried Johnson's tactic still further; they broke completely with the flashy hit & run use of men on horseback, and employed cavalry as "a fast motorized column of infantry...
Train, who jumped to the Junior League after a disappointing showing last year, was unable to name a replacement immediately. His squad will be out to snap a 23-years losing streak today, but Paper-worker Prexy, veteran Crimson mentor suffering from redtapeworms, predicted, "If I can crawl out of the files, we'll take them...
Among the coaches the confidence is more restrained. Freshman mentor Harvey Love said, "It's the best crew we've had in some time and they're coming along well," but he hastens to point out that he knows little about his opposition, who may very well also be in good shape. Of course pessimism is to the coaching profession as pigeons are to the Yard...
However, Cann is "not negotiating with Harvard--any more than I am with any other school." The Violet mentor is emphatic in stating that his relations with NYU officials and friendly and that his chief cause of dissatisfaction is the short contracts...