Word: thayers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time less than one hundred cadets had graduated, sixty-five of whom were still in active service. Although most of these graduates served in subordinate positions throughout the war, their services won commendation, and many were brevetted for gallantry in action. In 1817 Major Sylvanus Thayer, a graduate of Dartmouth and West Point and a veteran of 1812, was appointed Superintendant of the Academy. He was especially qualified to take charge of West Point; his system, many parts of which are evident at the present time, for sixteen years had the greatest influences on cadet life...
...reading Thayer's Life and Letters of John Hay, I notice that both Hay and Nicolay used your favorite term, "Tycoon," as an affectionate nickname for President Lincoln. Do you know of any earlier use of the word...
Professor J. H. Beale '82 of the Harvard Law School has been granted sabbatical leave for the second half of 1929-30. Assistant Professor J. B. Thayer '20 of the Harvard Law School will be on leave of absence for the year 1929-30. Assistant Professor R. S. Foster of the Harvard Law School has been granted leave of absence for the year...
Competitions will be conducted for the positions of assistant manager and librarian of the orchestra. All students who intend to become candidates for either of these offices should see the manager at 56 Thayer Hall. The date for the competitions will be announced in an early issue of the CRIMSON
...consensus of the convention, expressed in a unanimous vote of confidence in outgoing President Thayer, was that sumptuary legislation, including Prohibition, baffles medical practice, that alcoholics are at times a medical necessity...