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...President Polk...
...James K. Polk, who was elected eleventh U. S. President in 1844. *John Quillin Tilson, who has served 14 years in the House, dark-eyed, shaggy of mustache, heavy of eyebrow, able...
...colleges in the Intercollegiate Association and their representatives are as follows: G. M. Carnochan, Harvard; Major V. A. Arnold, Yale; Alvin Devereux, Princeton; Major Harding Polk. Virginia Military Institute; Lient. Col. Frank H. Hyatt. Pennsrivania Military College; Colonel Frank B. Edwards, Norwich University; Major A. W. Helderness. West Point; and Major R. E. Anderson. Cornell. The officers of the new organization are Alvin Devereux. President; G. M. Carnochan, Secretary-preasunder; F. S. o'Reilly, Assistant Secreisis Tressurer...
...during the year 1845 that George Bancroft, Secretary of the Navy under President Polk, decided that there must be a school for training naval officers. So he went to the War Department and got it to sign over to the Navy the land on which had stood Fort Severn, at Annapolis, Md., and there on Oct. 10 of that year the U. S. Naval School was opened with Commander Franklin Buchanan as Superintendent. Five years later the school was reorganized and rechristened "The U. S. Naval Academy." There, where it first took root, the Academy has flour- ished ever since...
...Robert Lansing (the same), David Houston (ex-Sec, of Agriculture and of Treasury), A. Mitchell Palmer (ex-Attorney General), Josephus Daniels (ex-Sec, of Navy), William C. Redfield (ex-Sec. of Labor), John Barton Payne (ex-Sec. of Interior), Joseph P. Tumulty, Bernard M. Baruch, Vance McCormick, Frank L. Polk, Admiral Cary T. Grayson, Colonel E. M. House, Breckinridge Long came to pay homage to a dead friend and admired leader. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and Miss Margaret Wilson came in memory of one close to them...