Word: commander
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...established publishing business about to be incorporated by Harvard graduates has a good opening for an energetic man who can command some capital and act as treasurer. Highest reference required. Address P. G. F., Crimson office...
...established publishing business about to be incorporated by Harvard graduates has a good opening for an energetic man who can command some capital and act as treasurer. Highest reference required. Address P. G. F., Crimson office...
When Governor Andrew received permission to fit out a negro regiment he asked Robert Shaw to be its colonel. The young officer, doubtful of his ability at first refused, but on being told by his commanding officer that he was fitted for the post accepted it. He knew that neither he nor his men would be treated as equals by friends or enemies but steadfastly did his duty. In February he took command of the regiment at Readville, on the 2d of May he was married, on the 28th he started for the front. On the 19th of July following...
...junior year. He entered the army just before the before the beginning of the war and served for a while in the 7th New York National guards. He soon exchanged to the second Massachusetts, however, where he served until in February of '63 Governor Andrew gave him the command of the fifty-fourth Massachusetts infantry. This regiment was the first colored regiment sent to the war. At the end of May of the same year the regiment left Boston for the front. On the 18th of the next July Colonel Shaw was killed while leading his men in the charge...
...recognize the value of these classes. More and more attention is being given every year by schools and colleges to elocution and public speaking; and it is now almost indispensable for an educated man to be able to read and speak in public in a way that will command attention. Mr. Copeland's classes offer the only chance for Freshmen to practice reading and speaking under the supervision of an instructor...