Word: shannon
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Captain James A. Shannon, captain of cavalry, United States Army, who has just reported here for duty in connection with the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, in an interview yesterday with a CRIMSON reporter, spoke with much enthusiasm of the spirit and organization of the University unit. Captain Shannon did not arrive in Cambridge until late Friday afternoon, so he has not had an opportunity to review any of the companies, but he has noticed the zeal and interest with which the student body is carrying forward its military preparations, and he is much impressed...
...answer to a question as to the relative value of men trained for officers under the system of the R. O. T. C. and under the system at West Point, Captain Shannon answered that there was no reason why the method here should not develop some officers fully as capable as the best graduated from West Point. "What an officer needs," he said, "is not necessarily so much book learning, but a training that makes immediate and unquestioning obedience second nature to him. A man so trained will usually make a good leader and officer. At West Point the idea...
Memorandum:-- April 6, 1917. Captain James A. Shannon, Captain Cavalry, U. S. Army, having reported on duty in accordance with instruction is announced as Assistant to the Commandant, Reserve Officers' Training Corps, Harvard University. C. CORDIER. Captain, U. S. Army, Commandant...
Captain James A. Shannon, of the 11th Cavalry, U. S. A., has been detailed by the War Department as an instructor in Military Science and Tactics at the University. Captain Shannon has left his regiment, now stationed at Fort Bliss, Tex., and will report at Cambridge as soon as possible...
...teams lined up as follows: HARVARD PENNSYLVANIA Emmons, g. g., Shannon Daly, (capt.), l.f.b. r.f.b., Edwards Freedman, r.f.b. l.f.b., Baldwin Page, l.h.b. r.h.b., Buzby Lucas, c.h.b. c.h.b., Mohr (capt.) Florance, r.h.b. l.h.b., Wesserman Dimond, l.c.f. r.o.f., Montenegro W. W. Rice, l.i.f. r.i.f., Nassau, Hough Cooke, c. c., Baron T. Rice, r.i.f. l.i.f., Spencer Kellett, r.o.f. i.o.f., Tinsman