Word: sergeant
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...following are the battalion officers of the Harvard Rifle-Corps for the second half-year: President, H. C. Mulligan, '79; Secretary, C. A. Hobbs, '80; Treasurer, J Quincy, Jr., '80; Major, C. W. Bradley. '80; Adjutant, T. H. Simmons, '80; Quartermaster, C. H. W. Foster, '81; Sergeant Major, Jared S. How, '81; Quartermaster Sergeant, J. M. Gibbons, '81, Companies A and B will elect company officers at their next regular meetings...
...held at the Gymnasium, on Monday evening, October 28, when the following elections took place. President; H. C. Mulligan, '79; Secretary, A. B. Hart, '80; Treasurer, J. Quincy, '80; Captain of Sophomore Co., C. W. Bradley; 1st Lieutenant, I. B. Field, '80; 2d Lieutenant, J. S. Mitchell, '80; 1st Sergeant, H. W. Savage, '80; 2d Sergeant, W. A. Pugh, '80. Recruits will be received for this company from the upper classes, or any department of the University, on Mondays, at 6.30 P. M., the regular drill nights. The Freshman companies drill four nights weekly, two nights under General Lister...
...soon the curtain arose on "the event of the evening." The operetta of "Cox and Box" was played in one act and ten tableaux, and the dramatis personae were Mr. Reginald Gray, '75, as Cox, Mr. V. Y. Bowditch, '75, as Box, and Mr. S. H. Hooper, '75, as Sergeant Bouncer. These gentlemen sustained their parts very acceptably, and both their singing and acting were well received. The Lullaby Song was rendered by Mr. Bowditch in a particularly happy manner, and was one of the best pieces of the evening. The scene of the meeting between...
Quiet ever is the sergeant...
...this sort, for he cannot tell how soon he may be called upon to use it. Let not the next sudden emergency find us in the condition we were in when the Rebellion broke out, when, to quote the language of one of our leading journals, "a drill-sergeant was a man of distinction." Not that we desire to make the United States one vast garrison like Prussia, or get into the habit of picking international quarrels unnecessarily; but all our experience tells us that a certain amount of preparation is nothing more than prudence, and that...