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Battery A, after many delays, has finally left the border. Yesterday the men of this organization entrained at El Paso and without complications they should arrive in Boston in about a week. There are approximately 125 University graduates and undergraduates in the battery...
...been generally believed that the Battery would remain at the border until spring...
According to the Transcript, a preliminary report on registration at Brown University shows a total enrolment in the men's, women's and graduate departments of 1,035, exclusive of over a score of students who are with the troops on the Mexican border. The preliminary total, as of October 1, shows an increase of three over the figures for the same date a year ago. With the return of the troops from the border and the normal increase in enrolment this month, the final total will surpass the 1915 record of eleven hundred students...
...eleven in a way neither too pessimistic nor too full of early-season optimism. "En Route to Mexico," by Roger Batchelder '18, is the best of the two articles on the summer military expedition of "our boys," which with J. A. Goldthwait '17's. "With Battery A on the Border," forms a readable report of activities at the front. "Twilight Practice," by W. J. Littlefield '16, who persuaded the football management to adopt the Stadium lighting scheme, is another article of current interest...
When one considers the amount of military news which has been filling the American press, together with stories from the Mexican border, it is no wonder that dramatists reach there for material. Augusts Thomas proves to be the present victim and in "Rio Grande," now playing at the Hollis Theatre, he shows his thorough familiarity with soldier life. The plot, which is a complicated one, deals principally with the married life of Colonel and Mrs. Bannard. The latter being much younger than her husband and finding an army post existence weary, has secret relations with a certain Lieutenant Ellsworth...