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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Mitchell, the Brigadier General who talked himself down to the rank of Colonel and out of the Army by criticizing the War and Navy Departments' post-War air policies, this week began fresh repetition of his criticisms, in current issues of Aeronautics* and Liberty...
...Petain, Hubert (North Africa) Lyauty, Louis (Balkans) Franchet d'Esperey. None of these is a young man. It will not be long before the last blue-velvet, gold-starred baton disappears from France's parade grounds. Sentimental, the Paris press mourned last week the passing of a rank which goes back to the 12th Century, which has been prefixed to the names of famed Murat, Turenne, Ney. Practical, Government officials pointed out that the title of Marshal of France has been allowed to lapse before. For a great hero in a national crisis the Parliament can always revive...
...trouble, the men with low admission records, there is less possibility of improvement. Requirements of the College Entrance Board examinations have been raised repeatedly, and the secondary schools are already placing the chief emphasis of their curriculum upon obtaining a good record at these tests. Since low admission grades rank only third in the list of causes of poor standing in college, there are evidently other factors than that of proficiency at passing the entrance examinations to be considered in estimating a man's success after matriculation. Among these might be mentioned the familiar demand for greater correlation between...
...arrival of the Duke of Gloucester in Tokyo created a hostess problem almost as interesting as Washington's strange affair of Mrs. Gann. Positively the Empress Nagako could not serve. She is with child. Therefore the Sublime Emperor, Hirohito Tenno, descendant of the Sun Goddess, promoted to the rank of hostess for a day the gracious Princess Setsu, wife of the Emperor's next older brother and heir, Prince Chichibu. Not so long ago Miss Setsu Matsudaira was a pupil at the Friends (Quaker) School in Washington, D. C.. where her father was until recently Japanese Ambassador. Last week...
...advance to 53 men taking History and Literature there are no unusual changes. Anthropology claims only three students, which is a great decrease from two years ago when the rule was made restricting concentration in this department to men in or above the fourth group of the rank list...