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...poolroom, who is the university's boxing coach. Grizzled little Johnny La Rowe boxed in the Marine Corps in 1890. A weak heart ended his military and athletic ambitions at the same time, but he discovered satisfactory compensations. At Virginia Military Institute, where he had been a drummer & bugler, he instituted boxing classes, taught them for 13 years. Twenty years ago he opened his poolroom near the university campus and began to lecture all his patrons on the satisfactions of his favorite sport. Undergraduates whose only thoughts of recreation had been inseparably associated with the whiskey jug found themselves...
...Sisters of Mercy and said to be the one before which the first Maryland mass was sung. In the stands behind the altar sat 10,000 Catholic schoolchildren to chant the music of the mass. And on the hot, hard benches sat the rest of the 100,000. A bugler sounded "Attention"' at the Sanctus, Consecration and Communion, and two French 75's boomed on a nearby hill when Archbishop Curley held aloft the consecrated particle...
...qualities of a bellicose pacifist with those of a "parfit gentil knight." Hence his devotees, with equal catholicity, carried to the pacifist students' meeting in the Harvard Yard last week banners bearing the slogans: "Down with war!" and "Down with peace!" To every attack on Harvard's R.O.T.C. a bugler of the Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Club blew a shrill blast on his trumpet. When the pacifist speaker called for a cheer for peace a member of the Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Club called for a cheer for war. The student body enjoyed the show hugely...
...Bugler To Play Taps...
Following the completion of the parade of the colors, the Harvard and West Point bands will form on the 35-yard markers, facing each other. The program will be brought to a climax at this point by the playing of taps by the West Point bugler stationed at the bottom of Section 46. After five seconds of silence the echo will be taken up by a Harvard bugler ensconced on the topmost rampart of the bowl. When the last faint strain of the echo has been wafted away on the breeze, a one-minute hush will fall over the assembled...