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Major General David Douglas Hugh '92, of the Massachusetts Militia, also addressed the meeting and, he using the University's military record, also appealed to those present. He emphasized strongly the disastrous results of indifference to our present needs and quoted the instance of the Brandenbergs to prove his statements. "You read the daily papers now with the accounts of what our boys are doing down on the border and the whole thing seems to be one continuous, serial bellyache. I don't know whether these stories are all true or not, but if even a portion of them...
...Haven, Conn., September 26.--Despite reports to the contrary, the Yale Battery, which was mustered out September 21, after spending the summer encamped at Tobyhanna, Pa., still remains in the Connecticut State Militia as Battery A, B, C, and D of the Tenth Field Artillery...
...great factor of interference with the plan of the coaches is military exigence. A good many guards and tackles and "backs" are in camp or on the border with the militia. Should not a proper sense of values move even a stern and warlike Government to release them to the greater service? Because a college president becomes President of the United States, must he revise the order of the grades in the academic climax: For God-for country-and for the dear old college? Let the boys come home, to learn the greater strategy of line bucking, end running...
...order of yesterday morning to mobilize the entire militia of the country came with unexpected swiftness. Many undergraduates, including Seniors with the culminating festivities of their college careers just beginning, were enrolled in the state militia. Every one dismissing all thoughts of previous plans reported immediately at the designated point of concentration...
...Conn., June 19.--The orders calling out the militia caused a considerable stir here at Gales Ferry this morning, but it was found that only F. Parkman '19, of the Freshman crew, was affected by the order. He was granted a furlough, and returned this evening, but before the coaches knew of it, J. P. Howard '19, and R. Cobb '19 were tried at bow, while A. Thorndike, Jr., moved to Parkman's place...