Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Executive Committee of the Student Council has sent the following letter to Colonel H. L. Scott, Superintendent of the Military Academy, on behalf of the undergraduates of the University...
...Colonel H. L. Scott, Superintendent U. S. Military Academy...
...remaining four games of the West Point schedule have been cancelled by Colonel Scott...
...Colonel H. L. Scott, superintendent of the United States Military Academy, lectured in the Union last night on "West Point." He began by saying that Harvard prepares its graduates for all the arts of peace, West Point for the arts of war; but the prime object of both is to make cultivated...
...Colonel Scott went on to tell of the history, method and influence of the Academy. West Point was of great strategic importance during the Revolution, which fact, together with the lack of officers during this war, made Washington see the great advantage to the country of placing a military academy upon this site. He strongly advocated this measure, and in 1802 Congress at length passed a bill to establish such an academy. It proved inefficient until after the war of 1812, when it was reorganized, and after many troubles were eliminated it was placed upon its present basis...