Word: 7th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting for all those interested in foot-ball will be held in Holden Chapel, Wednesday evening, Oct. 7th, at 7:30. All who care for the preservation of the game are earnestly requested to be present, as it is of the utmost importance that something definite be decided at once. If the meeting is not well attended, the management will know that the college does not care to keep up the game, and Harvard's entire resignation will be sent into the Intercollegiate Convention and no further steps will be taken to revive the game. So all who care...
...Artillery firing was brought to a close by a demonstration of the latest model 75 mm gun, with which Battery B, 7th F.A., the parent battery of the R.O.T.C., was equipped. During the firing period all men had an opportunity to fire at least three problems. Allen E. Puckett '39 was awarded the Edward Holyoke Osgood Medal for that Harvard R.O.T.C. student who excelled in Conduct of Fire. He was closely pressed by Frank E. Southard, F. S. White, E. R. Clarke and I. Tucker Burr...
This bit of typical British sentiment was not matched, however, when the British Army said a far more significant farewell. Like the horses of the 4th & 7th, three full generals, four lieutenant generals, six major generals were retired before their time, not because anyone feared to see them suffer in battle but because plump, red-tape cutting War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha wanted to promote young men with new ideas. The retirement age for the two highest ranks having been cut from 67 to 60, and of major generals from 62 to 57, the Army Gazette simply listed the retirements...
...most tear-jerking farewells in its 250-year history was said last week in Edinburgh by the 4th & 7th Dragoon Guards (a regiment of cavalry combining the 4th Royal Irish Dragoons and the 7th Dragoon Guards or Princess Royal's). Henceforth, in order to keep up with the pace of modern war, members of the regiment will go forth to die or be maimed not on plunging chargers but in armored cars. In its last mounted parade before mechanization, the regiment heard Lieut. General Sir Charles Grant read a message of consolation from its honorary colonel, Major General Arthur...
Helen ("Piddle") and Cornelia ("Tobe") Storm, believed oldest spinster twins in the East, descendants (7th generation) of Dutch Immigrant Dirck Storm (1653), gave their 84th birthday party at Fishkill, N. Y. To their 50-odd guests the sisters proudly displayed a letter of congratulations sent by Dutch-descended Franklin D. Roosevelt...