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Next Monday, June 4, the first battallion will go to Wakefield, where the four companies will camp for the entire week. Ample tentage has been secured, although the tents will be those formerly used by the militia, instead of the pyramid type now employed by the War Department. The men will devote the six days to rifle practice at various ranges and to combat exercises. On June 11 the second battalion will supersede, and the following Monday the third battalion will start its week of shooting...
...officers of the University in making the organization of a student battalion as effective as possible. We are sure that the members of the squads intend to cooperate with them in this, and permit no individual sloth or carelessness to delay the formation of companies and gradual perfection of battallion drill...
...They will probably drill on either Soldiers' Field or Longfellow Park on Brattle street. The outlook for the company is on the whole very promising. Much improvement is necessary however as there is only about sixteen afternoons left in which to practice before the competitive drill with the Technology Battallion which is to take place on Saturday, May 11. The drill will be held in the South Armory on Irvington street, and the companies are to be drilled by their own cadet officers...
...company from the Medical School formed behind the freshmen. At 7.45, the column moved along Beacon and Arlington streets, to its position as a part of the third division on the north side of Commonwealth avenue, the right of the column resting on Dartmouth street. Here the battallion halted, and the men amused themselves in divers innocent ways. After an almost interminable delay the division fell into line behind the second division at 9.30 p. m. After the march was really begun there were no halts of any importance. The route of the procession lay through Dartmouth street to Boylston...