Word: columns
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Another chance to join the June under age camps has been offered to undergraduates. According to a letter from the Adjutant General's office published in another column, the War Department will still receive applications for these camps. The Military Office should not fail to verify this news immediately and enroll any additional men who may want to go. There is already a long list of "alternates" filed at Headquarters, and many who did not enroll before April 28 may now find it possible to join. Whatever may have been the reasons for their holding back last week, no difficulties...
...peaked Army hats or the white caps of cadets--many, indeed, nothing but the points of serried bayonets and the mounted officers. We chanced to stand on the Common where the uniformed men could be seen only when they emerged from the multitude along Boylston street as the column swung into Park square. Presently a flag came floating along in full view above the throng. It seemed a living presence--a radiant embodiment visualizing the impelling cause of the unseen array. Men and boys bared their heads. "Why don't women find some way to salute that flag?" a feminine...
...marchers wheeled into view in Park square, "that flag" seemed to float on the billowed sea of their manhood--a trustfully hovering presence above those stalwart men. It was a striking spectacle as the column pushed its way out Columbus avenue. Every youth in that sturdy array had given up home comforts, school and business advantages, personal delights with friends and loved ones--had turned from all these to the rigors of camp and training stations--had subordinated himself to enders that must be obeyed without demur--had set himself to face terrifle perils overseas and lay down his life...
...Flattened indistinct drums jarred the column forward. And every thud of them was a flash more of light let into the otherwise enternity of a peasant barmaid's obesity. . . Tum . . T-T. Tum, Tum, Tum. . Georgiette!. . . Georgiette...
After the conclusion of the exercises the corps will march back to Cambridge in column of squads and will then be dismissed...