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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Although no new commander has yet been named to succeed Captain Parker, Lieutenant Chester L. Dane, U. S. N., who has been second in command throughout the year, is acting-head of the school and may receive the appointment permanently. Lieutenant R. N. Fortson has been assigned to the school as Instructor in Regulations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAPTAIN PARKER REMOVED FROM ENSIGN CADET SCHOOL | 4/9/1918 | See Source »

...other point is that, should the German army, in its next effort towards the west, succeed in breaking the line south or southwest of Amiens, it will then be faced by a problem which its method of advance renders especially difficult. The Germans, since 1870, have consistently employed the methods of what are known as linear strategy; that is, each group of the army advances along its own line of communication, along closely delimited and parallel battle strips. This virtually compels the army to advance in a straight line. And, if a change of direction, as is indicated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SERIOUS SITUATION CONTINUES | 4/5/1918 | See Source »

Preliminary trials for the Lee Wade II Prize Speaking, on the basis of which the final contestants will be selected will be held in Sanders Theatre tonight at 7.15. Those who succeed in surviving the preliminaries will meet in the final competition on Wednesday evening, March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Lee Wade II Trials Tonight | 3/20/1918 | See Source »

...candidates for the Lee Wade Prize are to attend these trials, and the final speakers will then be chosen by an elimination process. The contestants who succeed in surviving the preliminaries will meet in the final competition in Sanders Theatre on Wednesday evening, March 27. Each speaker will deliver the same selection, a portion of "The Defence of Blenner-hassett," by William Wirt. The three prizes are of $25, $15 and $10, respectively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Speaking Preliminaries Postponed | 3/18/1918 | See Source »

Henry Munroe '19, of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., has been appointed secretary of the dance committee to succeed Willard Wise McLeod '19, who has left College to enter the aviation service. The other officers of the committee are William Rice Odell, Jr., '19, of Chicago, III., chairman, and George Abbott Brownell '19, of New York, N. Y., treasurer. The remaining members of the committee are divided into the four sub-committees named below...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APRIL 11 SET AS DATE OF POSTPONED JUNIOR DANCE | 3/14/1918 | See Source »

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