Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pickhardt, chairman of the arts and cuts committee, has chosen two sub-chairmen, R.E. Fulton and H.F. Williams. The following have been selected for the committee: F.E. Bissell, F.S. Holmes, William McKennan, H.E. Scott, and Kiyoshi Yamaguchi...
West Point training was followed by fire-baptism in the Mexican War, where heroic service at Cerro Gordo, Contreras-Churubusco and Chapultepec led General Scott to designate young Lee "the greatest living soldier in America." Engineer work in Washington and Baltimore taught him to construct defenses, a knowledge which was to serve him well. For three years he superintended West Point...
...years old, she used often to talk to a friend of her father's called Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He was an instructor in mathematics at Christ Church, one of the colleges of Oxford. Alice Liddell's father, a member of the team of Liddell and Scott, famed in all schools and colleges for their Greek Lexicon, was Dean of Christ Church. Mr. Dodgson too had done some writing. Some of it, mathematical treatises and such, he had published under his own name. Other and lighter works, such as he often composed, he signed, with a Latin transliteration...
...blood. His uncle quit the U. S. Army after long service, irked with peace, and went to Egypt to fight. The nephew was elevated to the Air Service from the Cavalry where he won his spurs. Many a War and post-War flier was trained under his command at Scott, Carlstrom, Dorr and Kelly Fields. His brother officers still think he looks "like a Remington cavalryman." "Take a good look at that fighting jaw," say they...
...School Society holds a reception for first year men on the opening night of the Law School. That the first year men were even more anxious than usual for this information is shown by the fact that some 600 of them turned out to hear Dean Pound, Professor Scott of the Law School Faculty, Erwin Griswold, president of the Harvard Law Review, and the President of the Legal Aid Bureau tell of the Law School and its associated activities. This is some 70 more men than attended the year before...