Word: merriam
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...contingent of 790 soldiers, will converge on Harvard on Monday and Tuesday to take up living quarters in Leverett and Winthrop Houses and to study a variety of assigned Army courses. The new trainees will split up into three companies to be headed by Major Bernard A. Merriam, Inf., Captain Russell A. Fairbanks F.A., and First Lieutenant Nelson T. Hoadley...
...from many corners of the world and many branches of this far-flung army felt closely integrated into a single comradely group when their voices burst forth into "He's A Jolly Good Fellow" at the sight of Major Bernard A. Merriam and his wife catering the hall. They rose to their feet and stood proudly in the position of the soldier at attention...
...greatest moment of the even came when Staff Sergt. Saul Seigle, on behalf of Company A, presented Major Merriam a small token of the esteem with which his men looked up to him. The token was simply tangible evidence of the happiness the company experienced when the major was recently promoted from a captaincy...
...Major Merriam expressed his appreciation, and declared that "a commanding officer is judged by his unit. If the unit is good, it means the officer is good. If anything has come to me, it has come through the unit...
...entertainment with a fast-moving rediction of a "Schnitzelbank," in which he was jointed by many of the men. He worked in the ferocious Cambridge mosquitoes, the Normal Curve and the Standard Error (statistical concepts which have haunted the psychology students), and a sketch relating to Major Merriam's "eagle eye" at inspections...