Word: said
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...University Ensign School which graduated its last class of cadets yesterday, was the first Officers' Material School in the country to open during the war and the last to close, was the statement of Capt. P. W. Hourigan, commandant of the School, in his farewell address. It also, he said, had the reputation of turning out the best reserve officers of any one school, and had graduated 890 ensigns, second only to the Annapolis Reserve School which commissioned 1,000 men. President Lowell, and Rear Admiral Spencer S. Wood also spoke, Lieutenant A. R. Parker, Chaplain U. S. N. gave...
...giving the farewell to the School on behalf of the University, President Lowell said: "This is rather a sad day for me. You are the last product of the effort of this University to help the government carry on the war for the last two years. The war has called for great efforts by everybody. Some of my friends have told me that they believe that there will be permanent benefit to the spirit of the country. History, however, shows that every great period of war has been followed by an age of materialism and selfishness. The Civil...
...universities. The exponents of the system defend it on the ground that it tends to efficiency in the administration of undergraduate activities in that it restrains a man from undertaking more than he can successfully accomplish. The benefits of experience in management are more equally distributed, and studies are said to receive more attention by virtue of less onerous extra-college duties...
Definite word was received yesterday afternoon by the baseball management that the Havana team would be unable to reach Cambridge for the game with the University nine scheduled for Saturday. The cablegram from Dick Grant '97, who is in charge of the Havana College athletics said "Passports or permission from Washington to enter the United States unobtainable." The schedule of the Cuban nine in this country has necessarily been given...
Major General Squire, Chief of the Signal Corps and Director of Aviation during the war, has approved of the intercollegiate flying contests which are to be held at Atlantic City this spring and summer. According to a recent despatch he said, "I strongly favor the plan. This proposition offers a new and chivalrous sport for the Colleges to compete in, and I ardently hope that the scheme will be a success. There are thousands of men in the colleges who have been fliers in the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps Air Service so there is an abundance of material...