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...Battery A hockey team will meet the team of Squadron A of New York City in the Arena this evening at 8 o'clock. The Squadron A team is composed of former Harvard, Princeton, and Yale players. Members of the University will have an opportunity of seeing several former Harvard players in action, since the Battery line-up includes R. J. Eaton '12, W. M. Minot ex-'11, R. Whidden '12, and G. M. Carnochan, Jr., '14, of the University hockey squad...
Besides these events there will be a scratch relay race in which the Freshmen will meet Troop C, First Squadron Cavalry of the Rhode Island National Guards. The Freshman team will consist of four men from among the following, each man to run two laps, or 390 yards: J. I. Abbott, W. L. Allen, W. A. Barron, R. W. Boyd, A. J. de Gozzaldi, A. L. Jackson, F. J. O'Brien, K. Reynolds, F. H. Storms...
...week to drills of different kinds connected with the duties afloat and ashore. They will also be required to go on a cruise of eight days, coming the latter part of July in each year. Last year the cruise was made upon the ships of the North Atlantic Battleship Squadron...
After starting, the first thing that the admiral did was to form the squadron into a line in Indian file. He insisted that the ships should keep just four hundred yards apart. They straggled for a few days, when the admiral began to send disagreeable messages which touched the officers' pride, until they all decided to do what he wished. As soon as he found that they had learned to keep their distance he began to put them through every imaginable evolution until they were able to perform with perfect accuracy...
...ships visited a number of cities in Australia. They then sailed to Manila and from there to Japan. At Tokio the admiral and captains met the Mikado, receiving an honor that has seldom been conferred upon foreigners. For five days the festivities continued in honor of the squadron. At the end of that time the fleet left Japan for Manila, and after a month's gun practice it started for the United States...