Word: barring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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After his graduation from the University in 1904, Mr. Roosevelt took a degree of bachelor of laws from the Columbia Law School in 1907, and was admitted to the New York Bar the same year. Three years later he was elected to the New York Senate, a position which he held for three years, resigning in 1913 to take up the office of Assistant Secretary of the Navy under the Wilson administration. Mr. Roosevelt was also elected to the Board of Overseers of the University at the last election of nominees...
...Roosevelt, after graduating from the University, took a degree at the Columbia Law School. Three years of practice on the New York bar preceded his election to the senate of the Empire state in 1910. He became Assistant Secretary of the Navy under the Wilson administration in 1913. At the last election for members of the University Board of Overseers, Mr. Roosevelt was one of the nominees chosen...
...feet are worth a dozen men who can jump six feet today. What good is you man if he can't get out of a trench by himself, and every man must be able to do that. We have men who cannot pull themselves up once on a horizontal bar, and we have those who can't raise themselves once on a parallel bar. And these are our potential soldiers. They must be trained and each of us must share the burden...
...Gaunt, dv. '14'16' died in a hospital at Bar-le-Duc, France, April...
...given to the individual but to the rank, therefore to the system of which the democratic soldier is supposed to be an intelligent part, therefore the salute is in a sense a salute to one's self. The salute to the hat cord of the second lieutenant, the thin bar of the first lieutenant, is a salute to the principle of order, of discipline, of organized effort. It is therefore answered by the superior rank. Neither the private who salutes nor the major general who returns the salute has lowered himself a hair breadth, socially or any other...