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...City course is under the direction of Sergeant Cooper of the Cambridge police, and the University's is guided by Mason Hammond '25, associate professor of Greek and Latin, and History Members of both courses attend the lectures on such subjects as police law and riot control by Sergeant Cooper in Saunders, and then change over to Memorial Hall for the drill by members...
According to Sergeant Cooper, the R.O.T.C. men are "doing a fine job." The drill they teach is necessary for police in affording a convenient means for moving about rapidly under difficult conditions. At the same time it affords an excellent opportunity for the student officers to get practice in drilling troops...
...Many U.S. wounded are still on their feet. One sergeant who was shot clean through the neck is still on duty. He put a Band-Aid over the holes on either side of his neck and, incredibly, went on fighting...
Rousseau's Jungle. An ex-army sergeant who fought with the Emperor Maximilian in Mexico and in the Franco-Prussian War, Henri Rousseau retired at 41 from his job inspecting baggage and decided to devote the rest of his life to becoming a painter. That was in 1885. He had never been near an art school, and his diminutive pension would not stretch far enough to pay for instruction. So he set out, with enormous patience, to teach himself...
...good cellulords to rally their material and dress up Patriotism in the garb of history for the consumption of wide-eyed school children. Some of these attempts--"Night Train," "The Mortal Storm,"--have been powerfully done. But "They Died With Their Boots On" is in the same class with "Sergeant York": confused in its theme; rambling in its plot; corny in its characterizations...