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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. in 1889. In 1886 he became an assistant surgeon in the United States Army. In 1899 he was appointed brigadier-general of the Army, and in the same year he was made military governor of Cuba. He received his present rank four years later. In 1910 he was made chief of staff and, in 1914, additional honor was tendered him when he was placed in full charge of the Department of the East...
...assistant surgeon in the United States Army, and began his brilliant career as a military leader. In 1899 he was appointed brigadier-general of the United States Army and in the same year was made military governor of Cuba. Four years later he was promoted to his present rank of major-general. Additional honor was shown him when, in 1910, he was made chief of staff, and again in 1914 when he was placed in complete charge of the Department of the East. Adjutant-general Cole who will also address the meeting is likewise an important figure in military affairs...
...doctors will have "relative rank" of officers in the British army, but will not enlist or receive commissions. Their pay, and that of the nurses, will be the "war pay" of their ranks, ranging downward, for the surgeons, from majors to subalterns. The University is expected to provide the supplies and instruments, so that immediately upon arrival the unit will be ready for work...
...Columbia, Cornell, or Pennsylvania, as the "big" universities of the country, meaning in numbers. Now we may perceive that in the reckoning by numbers alone Harvard is sixth down the list, Yale is seventeenth, and Princeton twenty-sixth in the list, while Columbia has not only attained the front rank, but got so far ahead of it that there seems almost to be a vacancy in the second place. Of the universities which come next, California now impressive with 8,180 students, and Chicago with its 7,131, were almost unknown in the palmy days of the "Big Four...
...Students who have completed two years of work in a college or scientific school of high rank, provided they present certificates (a) that they have stood in the upper third of their class, (b) that one year's course has been taken in physics, biology, general chemistry and organic chemistry, and (c) that they have a reading knowledge of German or French...