Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Advantages: 1) Elimination of wasteful duplication of equipment and service. 2) Stimulation of research to improve present methods. 3) Better, cheaper service for the public...
...General Neville, of course, it was to be a Christmas spent at home. But no Marine better typifies the service than the present Corps Commandant. A fighting Virginian, aged 59, he was graduated from Annapolis in 1890. He helped capture Guantanamo Bay in the Spanish War and relieve Peking in the Boxer Uprising. He served as a provincial military governor in the Philippines, won the Congressional Medal of Honor in the seizure of Vera Cruz. Through Belleau Wood he led the Fourth Marine Brigade to Soissons, St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne, then on to the Rhine and Coblentz. After...
...this year there are more U. S. civilians abroad than ever before. From countless U. S. homes this month have gone forth Christmas boxes and bundles to countless far-flung civilian Jacks. Toms, Ikes, Petes. The year had been generous at home but many a son could not be present to share its holiday rewards. When other U. S. citizens were turning homeward for the year's greatest family celebration, Jack was converting heathen on Luzon, Tom was selling Standard Oil up the Yangtze, Ike was with National City Bank at Bombay, Pete was peddling vacuum cleaners out of Stockholm?...
...makes such conferences possible through invitations to all the parties concerned performs a necessary service toward the smooth functioning of athletics in this area. Harvard is in peculiarly advantageous position for performing such a service because of its larger equipment and its long-standing athletic prestige. In pursuing the present policy, the H. A. A. has recognized both its obligations and its potentialities toward effecting athletic concord in greater Boston...
...first made some time ago at a meeting of the New England Intercollegiate Wrestling Association held at the H. A. A. At first it was proposed that the officials alone assemble to standardize the regulations for Greater Boston. Representatives of Harvard, M. I. T. Tufts, and Brown were present, and all agreed on the advantage of doing this. As an added step, Coach Gallagher of Harvard then suggested that in addition the coaches from these colleges be present, to avoid misunderstanding between coaches and referees at the meets...