Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...increase of 58, bringing the total enrolments to date to 875 number, however, must be increased to 950 in order to provide the necessary quota for the 12 companies, Major Flynn, who has been acting as commandant of the Corps since the recent termination of his duties with the Iron Battalion in the same capacity, stated yesterday that he had no doubt but that the number needed would be secured, and President Lowell also expressed his satisfaction with the work already accomplished...
...held at two o'clock today in order to formulate plans for the organization of companies next week. Until the arrival of the officer to be detailed by the War Department as Commandant, Major Flynn, U. S. A., who has been in charge of the work of the Iron Battalion, will officiate in that capacity...
...name of "Iron Battalion" was given to the organization by Colonel Azan, who took it from one of the famous battalions of his former regiment...
Eight officers of the University R. O. T. C. received appointments as assistant instructors to the Iron Battalion from Colonel Azan, and worked with the French Officers through the four weeks. The detail consisted of Captain Cases Canfield '19, Captain L. A. Wheeler '18, Captain G. A. Brownell '19, Lieutenant H. Whitney '20, Lieutenant C. J. Romieux '19, Lieutenant E. R. Gay '19, Lieutenant J. F. Balackman, and Lieutenant E. Mellen. Mr. R. D. Fuller, connected with the tactical staff of the University Corps, conducted a large part of the office work of the battalion administration...
...prohibition of Sunday sports may be as iron-bound as the laws of the Medes and the Persians. But the Medes and the Persians being dead, their laws are not worth the traditional scrap of paper. So the dulators of our present laws should not exercise in part an authority which they ceased generations ago to exercise in spirit. The Blue Laws may well be stricken with blue lightning, and vanish in blue smoke...