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Advice to Corporals. Husky, long-chinned Major General Andrew Bruce had pulled his 77th (Statue of Liberty) Division back from the lines to the beaches of Leyte Gulf. On the grey sands, Krueger reviewed the force-including his son-in-law. Colonel Aubrey D. Smith, commanding the 306th Regiment. Said Father-in-Law Krueger: "I want every corporal to realize that he commands an army just as I do, except that mine is a bigger army." Then the men marched up the ramps of waiting LCIs...
Harvard is holding its 291st Commencement in its 306th year. There were no graduation exercises in the College's first six years, until 1642, and owing to war, pestilence, and other causes, the ceremonies were irregularly held until 1781. Since 1781 there has been a Commencement every year...
...Richardson no one bothered to notice a trim, erect, red-haired Army officer standing back among the onlookers. He was Lieut.-Colonel John Buchanan Richardson Sr., assistant adjutant of the Third Corps Area. Near Ville Savage, France one August day in 1918, as a major in command of the 306th machine gun battalion, he was covering a charge by the 308th Infantry. Suddenly he saw one company, led by an inexperienced commander, waver and fall back under the enemy's fire. "With great gallantry and utmost disregard of personal danger" Major Richardson leaped forward, rallied the faltering company...
...306th anniversary of the birth of John Harvard will be celebrated under the auspices of the Memorial Society this morning at 8.30 o'clock. A short service open to all members of the University will be held at the John Harvard statue, which will be wreathed for the occasion. A number of the Glee Club members have arranged to be present to lead in the singing of "Fair Harvard." After these exercises the meeting will adjourn to Appleton Chapel, where Bishop Hughes will conduct a special morning service in honor of the occasion, and all will take part...
...Memorial Society will hold a service tomorrow morning at 8.30 o'clock in honor of the 306th anniversary of John Harvard's birth. The meeting will take place in front of the John Harvard statue in the Delta, which will be wreathed for the occasion. The service will be simple and short, and all members of the University are cordially invited to attend it and also morning prayers, where the occasion will be properly commemorated...