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...parade will form in front of University Hall to march to the Dartmouth baseball game which will be played at Soldiers Field at 3 o'clock. The procession will march around the Yard and then down Boylston street, across the river to the field. Kanrich's twelve-piece brass band, which has been procured for the occasion, will lead the procession...
Tomorrow afternoon at 2.15 o'clock a parade will form in front of University Hall to march down to Soldiers Field for the Dartmouth baseball game. Kanrich's twelve-piece brass band has been procured to lead the procession to the ball field. All members of the University are urged to take part in the demonstration, which will be the first organized support of a University athletic team since the football season two years...
...fares again? Are we no longer to stand in line for eight-cent tickets; but once more be able casually to tass our nickels or anything else we happen to have into the collection box? Are we going to be able to go anywhere without being conscious of a brass band in our trouser pockets? If this be so, we are indeed returning to ante-bellum days...
...punished by confinement to barracks and a number of hours of fatigue duty at the week-end. Such a policy plays havoc with the victim's time for study. For, he is not only denied the use of the library, and freedom of action for similar purposes, but brass and window polishing is substituted, per force, for necessary preparation of courses. The result is discouragment to the individual and a loss to the Nation of his time which should have been more profitably spent...
...notice to the world that all we had done in this thrice-busiest year of our Nation's life is but a beginning of what we shall do. It was Paul Jones's cry from the deck of the Bonhomme Richard, magnified by steam and a million trumpets of brass--"We've just begun to fight!" Wild, discordant, terrible it was--it is, for it will ring in my ears henceforth--our tocsin! the tocsin of a hundred million people speaking one wrath and one purpose. It was, it is, our answer to the great gun in the woods...