Word: militia
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...view of the conditions then existing it was the duty of every young man to learn the tactics of military drill, developments have been many and important, and now this duty is manifest. Since then also, not only have many undergraduates already identified with military drill in the State militia, volunteered for the public service, but a number have enlisted as raw recruits. As individuals these are to be commended for their patriotic enthusiasm, but it seems possible that the mass of young college bred men can prove more useful if they are less impetuous...
...Weld crews did not go out in the orders announced in yesterday's CRIMSON, as several of the men have been called away to the militia. The intermediate crew was unable to get together at all owing to the enlistment...
...Weld Senior, Intermediate and Junior crews were picked, with a provisional order, and will begin training today. Hodges and Robinson who would have been on one of the Senior crews, and Burnham who would have rowed with the Intermediate eight have been called away for service in the militia. Pierce, Stoddard, Brittin and Bancroft have already enlisted and may be obliged to leave at any moment. There will be two Senior crews for a time, as the coaches were unable to make a selection of one only with justice to the men. The Weld Freshman crew will constitute the Junior...
Harvard men should be proud that they are accorded second place in a parade of six divisions, made up of members of the G. A. R., divisions of the State Militia, the Cadets, the School Regiments, representatives of the Cambridge trades and other representative bodies...
...country during the morning hours. They hesitated, however, from habit, from loyalty, and perhaps from wholesome fear, to put themselves in the attitude of rebels. But when the detachment at the bridge fired upon our men, Major Buttrick no longer stayed his hand, but cried to his force of militia, "Fire, fellow soldiers, for God's sake fire!" This was the beginning of the Concord fight. The day went more and more against the regulars, and about noon they began to retreat. The farmers pursued them to Lexington, where, near two in the afternoon their numbers were augmented...