Word: commandant
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...they have for decades, much has changed since Douglas W. MacArthur led his class of cadets through the Long Gray Line. No longer can upperclassmen harass plebes throughout meals so they don't get a chance to eat; no longer must plebes be able to spout back on command how many lights there are in Cullen Hall (340); no longer is "silencing" permitted--a form of extreme ostracism and abuse inflicted on those found guilty by their peers of breaking the honor code but absolved by a higher authority...
...under a tree on the Cambridge Common, or so legend has it, that General George Washington took command of the first battalion of American Troops. Shortly thereafter, Cambridge was proclaimed the army's headquarters...
George Washington took command soon after the initial fighting, and began fortifying the community. The British kept a steady, but ineffectual, fire trained at the colonials as they dug trenches and built walls. The Americans, too short of ammunition to return the fire, instead chased after errant musket balls to recycle them...
...story horrified military commanders. General Richard H. Ellis, chief of the Strategic Air Command, whose men would fly the Stealth, telegraphed the Pentagon that the story "brought the hair up on the back of my neck." He urged his superiors to "discredit" the story...
...think for a moment that the whole country is not behind the Expos, you are wrong. By hitting America where it counts--on the ball field--they can command televised respect without even instituting draft registration...