Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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This intimate biography gives, for the first time, a full account of the life of one of the most interesting of American soldiers and writers. In youth a romantic poet, Mr. Higginson became in early life a Unitarian clergyman of power and effectiveness. Later, in command of the first colored regiment raised for service in the Civil War, he had some military experience of exceptional interest. In later life, as a many-sided man of letters, his relations with writers in both England and America were extraordinarily close and varied. Few Americans of the nineteenth century touched American life...
...view of the outcry which has been everywhere raised of late against the prevailing low rates of remuneration for teachers. This complaint is in large part justified. From one point of view, however, it is easy to understand why even the best masters and instructors have been unable to command advancing high salaries with the rising cost of existence...
...first volume of the series, to be published next fall and now in the press, is President Alexander Meiklejohn's "The Liberal College," a collection of his papers and addresses on educational problems, which will command much attention. Two other books are nearly ready for publication: Professor John F. Genung's "The Life Indeed,' his last and perhaps most characteristic work, which was found among his papers after his death, and Professor Anson D. Morse's "Parties and Party Leaders," a collection of his best political essays, which were published in various periodicals. Other volumes are in preparation
...assigned to the battery, which is to fire the salute to General Pershing, put in two hours of gun drill at the Freshman gymnasium. Four gun sections have been formed, which will be under the command of Captain Daniels, who is assisting Captain Goetz...
...whether Mr. Palmer has any right to apply the words "unfit" and "unfair" to the judges who were selected. Surely their prominence in the community would not lead us to suspect that he is right. All three of the gentlemen in question are well known, and would seem to command the respect and confidence of their fellow citizens. Their disqualifications for such a position seem to have occurred only to Mr. Palmer. His first specification is that they are all New Englanders. This is not quite true literally as Dean Albers is a native of Illinois. It is true, however...