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...horseback. Three girls in colonial costume rode in a carriage. One white-robed marcher waved a flag and shouted to spectators; his face much resembled that of Charles Evans Hughes. One contingent bore a banner : "If you want to know what God thinks of us, read Revelations, 7th chapter, 9th to 17th verses...
...became successively Lieutenant, Captain, Major, Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel, Brigadier General, Major General, Lieutenant General, General. During the War, he commanded first the 3rd Cavalry Division; but as soon as trench warfare set in and all hope of using cavalry effectively was lost, he was put in command of the 9th Army Corps and shipped...
...gala attire, festooned with myriads of electric lamps, sporting a liberal number of triumphal arches, and holding a jubilant populace, showed not a trace of anxiety over the nugatory revolt. And when Ambassador Pershing arrived, his genial smile was mirrored in the faces of tens of thousands. "December 9th" was celebrated...
...tasseled cap and flowing gown, Amherst inducted her 9th President, Dr. George Daniel Olds. Not until the June Commencement will such a great day come again to town. Calvin Coolidge, '95, onetime pupil of President Olds, was among the eminent absent; but the eminent present were many. In the procession, on the platform: President Lowell of Harvard; President Garfield of Williams (Amherst's "mother" college) ; Presidents Neilson of Smith, Woolley of Mount Holyoke, Lewis of Massachusetts Agricultural College (all neighbors of Amherst) ; Dean Bouton of the College of Arts and Pure Science, New York University; U. S. Attorney...
...out?the Civil War?Walter Newman Haldeman was publishing the Louisville Journal and had a son, William Birch, but 14 years of age. The Journal was suppressed because of its Southern sympathies and some two years later the son ran away from Forest's Academy to enlist in the 9th Kentucky Infantry, the famous Orphan Brigade (Confederate). He fought at Chickamauga and was wounded. Then he shipped as a midshipman in the Confederate Navy. But gunboat service was not exciting enough for him. He went back to his old company and finished the war with...