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Theodore, the eldest, 39, and now resuming business affairs* after sundry candidacies and appointments in politics. Last spring he found some Marco Polo sheep (TIME, March 8, SCIENCE). Last week he was assigned, as colonel, to a 15-day training period at Plattsburg...
Then, in 1920, came the badly managed campaign for the presidency. The General can handle almost anything from a vicious garbage situation in Havana to a strike in Gary, Ind., or a gentleman's Plattsburg. And always he has been more statesman than Tsar. But one thing he cannot do. He cannot explain himself. He cannot express things. He canot touch emotion with winged words. In conversation he is witty, but on the platform he is dull, heavy, too careful of his facts, not sufficiently boisterous. "Do things, but don't boast about them" is his motto. So neither...
Immediately after graduating, he became Secretary to the Corporation, and held that position until 1912. From 1911 to 1913, he was research assistant in genetics, and three years later became assistant dean and acting University Marshal. When the United States entered the World War, he went to Plattsburg as captain in the Signal Corps, and later became head of the aviation examining boards. He was honorably discharged in December, 1918, holding the rank of major...
...chicken-salad she was saving for dinner, just because he happens to find it alone and unprotected in the icebox - but things of this sort are, to Pollyanna, merely added reasons for finding something to be "glad" about. Even when the War comes and Jimmy must leave for Plattsburg, does she weep? Certainly not! She strokes his hair, "murmurs tender comforting things," sews his buttons on, sends him away with a smile...
President Lowell, also, thoroughly approves of the C. M. T. C. "I always have been and am heartily in favor of Officers Training Camps for students, The Plattsburg Camps did a great deal of good, and I have been glad to encourage students to attend camps of this kind...