Word: summers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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General Danford speaks of a combined summer camp in which there may be a "spirit of healthy rivalry in developing esprit, skill, and efficiency," and anticipates keen competition among Harvard, Princeton, and Yale when firing records are being kept...
...certainly Harvard ought not to be surprised if some of the 3,500 pupils who have been to the Harvard Summer School of Physical Education, have been teaching what they were taught here in Cambridge, and in-as-much as many of them have had an opportunity to supplement the ideals and theories imbibed here with from ten to twenty years' practical experience in dealing with physical training and athletics, perhaps they are justified in adopting the resolution referred to. As a matter of fact the majority of the colleges throughout the country have long recognized the importance of physical...
...went to Italy to drive ambulances last summer, seventeen received the Italian War Cross and two were decorated with silver medals of Valor...
...University owes much to Colonel Shannon. His personality impressed itself strongly on the minds of the men who served under him in the summer of 1917. From him they learned the lesson that a real officer must be, at one time, strict and kind and just. They learned that a real officer holds his speech until he has something to say, but on such occasions, speaks with remarkable clearness and force. And, lastly, they learned that a real officer must be at all times a gentleman. He furnished a concrete example for them to follow while their minds were...
...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 Colonel Shannon was detailed as Professor of Military Science and Tactics at the University and was on duty here in the spring and summer of 1917. In August of that year he was assigned as major to the 42d ("Rainbow") Division at Camp Milis, N. Y.; in October he went overseas with it. Shortly after his arrival in France he was selected by General Pershing to organize and conduct the Personnel Bureau...