Word: caissons
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Then Manuel Quezon's funeral procession began, to the throb of muffled drums, the cadenced music of a military band. The casket was borne on a black-wheeled artillery caisson drawn by six white horses. Behind it marched mourners and battalions from the Army, Navy and Marine Corps. The procession wound its way to the highest hill in Arlington National Cemetery, not far from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, to a tomb beneath the grey steel mast of the U.S.S. Maine. There, to the measured boom of a 19-gun salute and the long, sweet notes of "Taps...
...crack training man who was on the point of retirement for age, took over McNair's command in the interim, later took a desk job. Canadian-born Ben Lear came up from the ranks (enlisting in 1898 for the Spanish-American war). As Army-wise as a rolling caisson, Ben Lear would give uncompromising stability to the ground forces command on the home front...
...where Hargrove lived and gold-bricked, is just what he cracked it up to be. Strange and quaint people and officers, fantastic programs, and unbelievable feats of training squat sweatingly there. Forty-five former Harvard ROTC men will to I you so any day, to the tune of the Caisson Song...
...final meeting of the Caisson Club will be held next Tuesday in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room at 2000. Activity in the Caisson Club has been slack lately because of the pressure of hour exams and divisionals...
...describing the Wasp disaster Lieutenant Bodell will describe many practical aspects of the military operations in the South Pacific which would be of interest to the military science students of the Caisson Club...