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Once the common grazing ground of the colonial settlement. Drill ground of the Continental Army during the Revolution. On the night of June 16, 1775, twelve hundred armed citizens assembled on the Common, where they were led in prayer by President Langdon, of Harvard College, at the start of their march to participate in the battle of Bunker Hill. The original Common extended a mile northward towards Lexington...
...action of the Board of Education in calling policemen to protect it from its own teachers. The City College is busy meting out discipline because a crowd of pacifist students blocked the path of the president--and of course the inevitable "distinguished visitors"--on the way to review a drill by the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Certainly some of the City College students were guilty of rowdyism, but the cure for that scarcely lies in chastisement with a presidential umbrella. The Board of Education was equally unhappy in its strategy. Its fairness in dismissing a teacher had been questioned...
That afternoon C. C. N. Y.'s President Frederick Bertrand Robinson, 49, walked across the street to Lewisohn Stadium to review a drill of the college's Reserve Officers' Training Corps. When he reached the entrance with his military science department head, Colonel George Chase Lewis, and other guests, he found a Pacifist crowd blocking his way. They jostled him, pinioned his arms for a moment. Then he raised his umbrella, flayed left & right, soon lost his umbrella. Police drove a flying wedge into the mob, surrounded...
...pack yapping at President de Valera's heels are the irreconcilables of the Irish Republican Army. They refuse to vote for deputies to the Dail: they call the 1921 treaty with Britain "the treaty of surrender." Their young men. of whom Eamon de Valera was once one. drill and plot the new day of Revolution, cursing de Valera for his caution. Last week he told them that with the abolition of the oath "a new situation has been created,'' opening the Oireachtas "to all sections of the population, without their having to forswear any opinions they might...
...with the iron mask and the monocle") was coming to train Chinese armies. The old Junker who organized the Reichswehr. happened to be on a world tour of the Far Kast last week. Before he left Berlin he had left blanket denials that he was going anywhere to drill anybody...