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...Madison Square Garden, the purple spotlights came on and in marched the Regimental Band in black bearskins, scarlet tunics and blue trousers. Then came the Massed Pipers of the ist and 2nd Battalions, swishing their royal Stuart tartan kilts and armed with dirks and skean dhu (daggers). The two groups formed at opposite ends of the arena and began the kind of show that Britons stage better than anybody else in the world...
March games are with Dartmouth on the 2nd, Yale on the 3rd, Brown on the 7th, and Yale, in New Haven, on the 10th...
...December, the varsity will meet Amherst on the 2nd, Northeastern on the 6th, Cornell, away, on the 10th, Tufts on the 15th, Middlebury on the 16th, and from the 28th to the 30th will participate in the New England Tournament at Colby College...
...most exciting travel drama in U.S. history began May 14, 1804. On that rainy Monday President Thomas Jefferson's private secretary. Captain Meriwether Lewis, 29, 1st Regiment of Infantry. U.S.A., and his friend, 2nd Lieut. William Clark, 33, of the Corps of Artillerists (he signed himself captain on Jefferson's authority), headed westward from St. Louis at the head of a 43-man "Corps of Discovery." Their objective was to explore the newly acquired territory of the Louisiana Purchase and find a route from the Missouri to the Columbia River, over which the rich fur trade...
Young Nasser entered the Royal Military Academy, enjoyed the orderly life and worked hard. At 20 he graduated a 2nd lieutenant, but soon discovered that the rottenness of Egyptian political life extended to the officer corps. "They were ignorant, of bad character and lived only by fawning on their superiors ... I was shocked at the treatment of the soldiers...