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...over a year since the Regiment was organized, and January 10, 1916, was the date of the first regimental orders issued by Captain Cordier appointing non-commissioned officers. On that same evening the first drill was held in the baseball cage. The dinner will therefore take place on the exact anniversary of the first actual work of the Harvard Regiment...
...meeting of the executive committee of the Association of Eastern College Newspapers held at the Vanderbilt Hotel in New York last Saturday, it was decided to hold the annual banquet of the Association in Cambridge in April. The exact date will be determined later. Delegates from the 28 papers represented will be the guests of the CRIMSON during their three-days' stay at the University, and the banquet will be held in the CRIMSON Building...
...Such scientific experiments carried on with exact instruments seem world-far from the Christmas request of The Fatherland; and yet I cannot send a better message than the results of these researches in the psychological workshop. We feel that soon the World Christmas Tree will gleam with its myriads of peaceful candle flames; at last peace on earth seems near. And yet we all hardly look forward toward such a holy night for warring mankind without the secret fear that unholy struggle may soon disrupt the peoples of the globe again, and that the new peace may be merely...
...Human life on the 'western front is as precarious today as it has ever been in the history of man. I cannot give the exact average length of life in the front trenches, but I know that it is measured in weeks rather than months, and perhaps in days. In the beginning, the small Expeditionary force held on to the long line with ever-diminishing numbers but were mercifully relieved in May of 1915 by the first Kitchener division, the Ninth, of which my regiment was a part. This ended the first stage of the war, but the second continued...
...authentic clue to the exact date of John Harvard's birth was found until recently, when historians found the following entry of his birth in the baptismal files of St. Saviour's Church, Southwark--"1607, November 29, John Harvye, S. of "Robt., a Butcher." Since it was the custom in the churches at that time to require the baptism of every child three days after its birth historians were led on the occasion of the 300th annivesary of John Harvard's birth to fix November 26th in the year 1607 as the correct date of his birth...