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Sharp Claws. The British War Office announced that it would have 20,000 British troops in China by the end of February. Ten thousand picked infantrymen, including a battalion of the crack Coldstream Guards, embarked at London last week for China, and 450 Punjabis from British India were rushed from Hongkong to Shanghai...
...There will also be certain important changes in the college itself. Athletics for Freshmen will be compulsory, according to the plan devised last spring by the Athletic Committee and approved by the Faculty and the Governing Boards in June. In addition, Harvard, which, during the war, trained so many infantrymen for the government, will for the first time see the establishment of an artillery R. O. T. C. For the most part, however, the University will for the first time in three years, be back on its old footing
There is a rumor spreading around the university concerning a Harvard-Yale drill to take the place of the annual football game. This is an outgrowth of the old tradition that neither college can thrive without competing with the other. If the Elis were infantrymen we would gladly journey to New Haven and meet them in mortal combat, say with blank cartridges at fifty yards or even with wooden bayonets at a shorter distance. Yet with so many Yale men up here last summer, there has grown up a certain comradeship between the Universities. We thirst no longer for their...
After we poor infantrymen have run around the field until exhausted, the artillerymen will trot calmly homeward. It looks like another Yale victory...
...branch of the service, in that the company will go to Fort Ethan Allen with two other machine gun organizations on July 9 and work for two weeks with the U. S. Army regulars. Men with previous experience are preferred, since those in this type of work are trained infantrymen, but raw men will be accepted. They will be given a thorough training in infantry work, in addition to preliminary machine gun drill...