Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Before the beginning of the war he spent 21 years in India as a member of the India Civil Service, during which time he held many offices. At various times he acted as secretary to the government of India, private secretary to Lord Curzon, Chief of Staff to the present King and Queen when they visited India in 1905, and a member of the Council of India...
...order of the Secretary of War: JOHN BIDDLE, Major General, Acting Chief of Staff...
...Museum Professor W. W. Atwood has held for the past two years extension classes for Cambridge children. The suggestion now is to extend this instruction to include from 400 to 500 children, four or five days each week. Furthermore, the instruction will be given by members of the Museum staff, assisted by State teachers, who are specialists in bird-life and forestry. The courses, briefly, will be on "nature studies," and the children most benefitted by them will be mainly from the fourth through the seventh grades of grammar school...
...Advocate will begin its annual mid-winter business competition on Thursday evening, February 14, at 6.30 o'clock. At that time all those interested will meet at 7 Randolph Hall, where plans for the coming competition will be outlined. At present there are two places vacant on the business staff, to be filled from members of the Sophomore and Freshman classes. The work will include soliciting advertisements and a small amount of clerical work...
Numerous investigations and multifold criticism are having a beneficent effect on the War Department. After listening to cross-examinations as well as suggestions for a supreme war council, Secretary Baker has formulated a plan to energize the general staff. Whether this measure will prove a remedy for our inefficiency or whether it will turn out to be an evasion of the demand for a more powerful board can not be immediately determined. Because the staff has not yet gained the powers to enforce its suggestions, a fault, which recent criticism sought to remedy, the reorganization may have little effect. Although...