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This Corps, one of the oldest active military organizations in the country, has had an interesting history. Organized in 1741, under the title of the "Governor's Company of Cadets," it has maintained a practically uninterrupted existence up to the present date, and still holds important special privileges accorded it by the Commonwealth in 1786. Through the Revolution and the Civil War the First Corps of Cadets served with distinction but its greatest service in the latter emergency lay in sending to the army over one hundred and fifty men, trained in its ranks, to hold commissions. This record, repeated...
...graceful tribute which the Harvard CRIMSON has paid it. May ungrudging recognition of the good fortune of a rival continue to be the sort of excellent sportsmanship by which the ancient rivalry is most graced. We welcome the CRIMSON'S felicitations as expressive of the sentiment of Yale's oldest friend. Yale News...
...season will be at the Brooklyn College games, in Brooklyn, on January 29. They will meet the University at the B. A. A. games on February 5 in a two-mile relay race. This latter has been a feature of those games for thirty-five years, and is the oldest college relay event in America...
...members of the class of 1923 interested in becoming a business editor of the Harvard Advocate, the oldest publication in the University, should report at the Advocate House at 7 o'clock this evening. Reliability and initiative are the main requisites of a successful candidate and no man should feel hampered by the lack of previous experience. The competition, which will consist mainly of soliciting advertisements for the magazine and of regular office work, will last for approximately three months. The work is interesting and will be arranged so as not to interfere with the mid-year examinations. This competition...
...that his reputation rests chiefly on his extensive investigations of coral reefs; the zoologist remembers his vast collection of marine life, gathered in a dozen extended voyages widely scattered over the surface of the globe, and to still others, he appears as one of the greatest benefactors of the oldest university in America; while those who delve among ancient civilizations and primitive races might well be surprised at the extent of his poaching in their preserves." The author was assisted in compiling this splendid work by Professor Barrett Wendell, Mr. Samuel Henshaw, Sir John Murray and Mr. Q. A. Shaw...