Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This meeting will be followed up by a parade to the Stadium Thursday to cheer the final practice before the eleven leaves for the Tiger's stronghold. The University Band will lead the procession, and it is hoped that every undergraduate who can will march behind it to give the team a strong send...
From May, 1905, to June, 1908, Colonel Shannon served in the Philippine Islands, and from 1911 to 1914 took part in several expeditions against the hostile Moros in Mindanao. He was present at the assault and capture of the famous Moro stronghold at Bud Dajo. On September 2, 1908, he was married to Miss Imogene Hoyle, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel (now Brigadier-General) Eli D. Hoyle. He served in Mexico with the Villa Punitive Expedition from March, 1916, to February, 1917, and was selected by General Pershing to command the famous Apache Indian Scouts. Soon after his return from Mexico...
Although Cambridge's newest move emphasizes the practical and immediately useful studies, yet it does not detract from the value of a classical training. What has developed for generations the minds of Englishmen is not now discarded. That the greatest stronghold of Greek and Latin should not adjust its requirements until 1918 gives convincing proof of their durability. The demand for men whose training has been devoted entirely to success in business has caused an addition to the college curriculum, not a substitution. Mental training and the need of it remain the same however much the world changes. That which...
...dramatists. Professor Wendell has done a great deal for Shaksperean criticism; Professor Neilson's "Tudor Shakspere" is one of the most popular editions. Some courses treat Shakspere directly; almost all courses in literature have very much to say about him. Hence it is appropriate that this University, a Shaksperean stronghold, should commemorate in this manner...
...intending to send my boy to Harvard, but since the stand President Lowell has taken on the Brandeis matter I shall not do it. I believe thousands of men west of the Alleghenies will take the same stand. We never thought of Harvard before as a Bourbon stronghold.'"--Harper's Weekly...