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...road, Col. Cordier received information that hostile patrols had been sighted in the vicinity of Spy Pond. He immediately notified the Commanding Officer of the Advance Guard of this information, and the latter at once despatched an officer's patrol to reconnoitre in that direction. This occasioned a short halt of the column, but within fifteen minutes a motor-cyclist arrived with a message from the front stating that the hostile patrols had been repulsed and that the progress of the command need not be further delayed. Throughout the advance messages were sent back and forth from head to rear...
...which was postponed last Thursday because of weather conditions, will be played off tomorrow afternoon on the St. Mark's rink at Southboro. The 1919 team has been seriously handicapped during the past week because of the lack of ice which has made practice impossible. Up until the forced halt in practice the team was steadily improving and with a promising amount of material from which to draw, gave every indication of rounding into winning form. The game tomorrow afternoon will show how serious the set-back caused by inactivity has been. There is a possibility that Trainer...
Trials for the University Musical Clubs wil be held during the first halt of next week, all students in any department of the University being eligible. At the Mandolin and Banjo Club trials, which will be held in Thayer 51 Tuesday and Wednesday evenings at 7 o'clock, men who play the following instruments are wanted; mandolin, banjo, banjeaurine, guitar, mandola, mando-bass, ukelee, cello, violin, clarinet, traps. Except in the case of players of marked ability, all members of the Mandolin and Banjo Clubs are required to play two instruments...
...recent communication to the Alumni Bulletin by a graduate took Harvard instructors to task in rather vigorous terms for their faulty lecturing technique and enunciation in the classroom. The correspondent objects to the haltings and stammerings of some teachers in their discussions; but pays his respects in particular to the annoying habit of filling in these gaps "with a meaningless 'uh'." The complainant is doubtless right to a great degree. There are always some men whose busy minds team with so many ideas at once, that expression must halt and waver while the thoughts struggling for expression fight...
...will review the procession. From here the members of the Harvard divisions will continue over Harvard Bridge to the corner of Beacon street and Massachusetts avenue, and will then turn to the left down Beacon street, until the head of the line reaches Arlington street, where the column will halt...