Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lieutenant Colonel James E. Fechet was nominated to succeed General Mitchell as Assistant Chief of the Army Air Service. Inasmuch as the temporary rank of Brigadier General attaches to this post, it means that General Mitchell will be reduced to his permanent rank of Colonel. This action was expected because of General Mitchell's repeated criticisms of his superior officers in connection with his demand for a united Air Force...
Much has been written about Marshal Foch in the War; how when he became 65 years of age in 1916, he was retired, as is usual with French Army officers of his rank and age; how, a year later, he was appointed to supreme command of the French Army in succession to General Nivelle-an appointment for which MM. Painleve and Clemenceau still claim the credit; how he became generalissimo of the Allied Armies on the Western Front at a time of acute stress; how his expert strategy succeeded in routing the Germans and how Premier Clemenceau recommended President Poincare...
Democracy, furthermore, was less observed than now, since the classification of Freshmen which is given depended not upon marks nor upon athletic prowess but solely upon the social rank of their parents...
...students who have found time and opportunity to develop their bodies and their social natures, and at the same time, to achieve distinction in their studies, deserve the highest honors the University can bestow upon them. Undergraduates already recognize them as leaders. The other group--the worshippers of a "Rank List" ideal need help of some kind from the College to put them on the path toward complete development. This is just as truly a duty as that of keeping tab on a student's academic standing, for after all, a college has only one function, that of training...
...blue water on a Summer's day, and so shall it go on and on even after the physical body which set going those waves of light in the pool of time shall have sunk out of sight into the gulfs of eternity. They promote him to the rank of full professorship "Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory." But he promoted himself, years ago to a higher rank full professor of that finest of the fine arts, the art of nourishing creative talents...