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...times gunners tripped the breech blocks of the 6-pounders. These lonely pomps were a rehearsal for the huge crew of 3,.000. Within a week the same show would be put on, two miles south of Ambrose Lightship, for President Roosevelt, standing on the flag bridge of the cruiser Indianapolis. It would be the first time a President had ever reviewed the Fleet off New York Harbor, the first time the combined Battle and Scouting Forces had been massed in those waters since the Fleet came home in 1918. Hampton Roads is the Navy's traditional parade ground...
...affair was just one more example of the aimless and poorly conducted demonstrations which a certain number of students in any institution can always be led into supporting. The fact that the participants in Thursday's brawl did not distinguish the particular bone they proposed to pick with the cruiser's crew, although we presume it had something to do with the curbing of personal liberty in Germany, reduced their fracas to the ignominy of childish "bull" baiting. The astuteness of the police in parking their pistols and resorting to skull crunching left their opponents without even the satisfaction...
...faced with an emergency, it is often difficult to pursue a thoughtful course and measures may be adopted which appear the next day to be ill-advised and lacking in justice. This was the case last Thursday when nearly 200 police prevented a demonstration against the Nazi cruiser "Karlsruhe...
...Riding into a crowd of massed students as they stood peacefully awaiting an opportunity to protest the welcoming of the German cruiser "Karlsruhe" Boston's highly touted police force was on hand to dispel the crowd before any kind of demonstration could be staged. The necessity of maintaining law and order is acknowledged, but the manner in which it was done yesterday, even before the necessity for so doing arose, may be subject to the harshest criticism...
...international touch lent by the presence of the cadets and officers of the cruiser "Karlsruhe" promises to make the annual Military and Naval Science Ball tonight at the Hotel Continental a colorful and distinguished event. Jackie Marshard and his orchestra will supply the music in the modernistic ballroom. The proceeds of the affair to which all University members are invited, will go to Phillips Brooks House...