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...will provide for a concentration of all field work and drill in the summer, with only classes during the rest of the year. It is also more than probable that guns and caissons will find a place in the Harvard Regiment, and that "Left two zero, down five, three thousand" may be understood by the future undergraduate. These plans must be formulated slowly, carefully, with a view to changing conditions, and it would be unwise to attempt to put them into effect before fall...
...hundred thousand dollars has been left to the Fogg Art Museum by the will of Henry E. Wetzel, art connoisseur, traveller, and collector, who died a few weeks ago at Neuilly, France, while serving with the Red Cross. The will, which was made on March 4, 1918, was filed in Boston Tuesday; it provides for an additional hundred thousand dollars to be given to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The gift to the Fogg Museum is to be expended under the direction of Dr. Denman W. Ross, Arthur Pope, and Edward W. Forbes, all of Cambridge...
...exercises held in nearly 500 colleges to commemorate the induction into the army of the United States, of more than 150,000 men. As a result of the grippe epidemic in Massachusetts it was deemed inadvisable by the army authorities to hold inductions in the local colleges, but many thousand men in this state will enter the S. A. T. C. on October...
...Three thousand men make up this R. O. T. C. training regiment. There are four battalions, consisting of four companies each. A regular army major commands each battalion and there are three officers for every company. A captain or first lieutenant of the Reserve is the company commander and he is assisted by a first lieutenant of the national army and a second lieutenant of the regular army. The quota of any one institution is usually distributed throughout one battalion. All representatives of the University except the ones who had been detailed to Camp Devens are in the first battalion...
...have, since the outbreak of the war, listened to stories published in our newspapers telling of the superiority of one American doughboy to countless numbers of Germans. Yesterday we learned from one of the daily papers that the Americans on the Marne slaughtered one thousand enemy troops and lost but one man. All of which is cheering news, but somewhat ridiculous, and very few educated people can be expected to take much stock in such exaggerated reports...