Word: phalanxes
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...pride of every student is the University Phalanx, which is a military organization of the students. It is a well disciplined regiment of young men from 20 to 30 years of age, and it is the pet of the army. The Phalanx is not under arms constantly; some years, as in '82 and '83, it does no drilling of any importance, but whenever there is any prospect of war, as in the present crisis in the East, it resumes its active discipline; and the university has just suspended most of the lectures temporarily, in order to allow the Phalanx...
...stands on the outer vestibule of the building. On the right of the speaker are the President and Fellows, supported by the Faculty and other supernumerareis of Harvard University; on his left is the late H. R. C., and in front, arranged in serried ranks after the phalanx of Epaminondas, are the four classes, while the whole body is picketed by numerous groups of those free citizens of Cambridge who have nothing to do but to admire the sublime and the beautiful...
...ubiquitous mucker whose habitual presence has so marred previous Class Days. For the whole day the Yard should be kept clear, and the committee is such that if they but make up their minds the Celtic element cannot enter into the procession of the Class as a disorderly phalanx, where it is usually prone to straggle...