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...James A. Shannon Post of the American Legion is to be invited to attend in uniform in view of the fact that the commemoration will be in honor "especially of members of the Harvard regiment and its sometime commander, Lieutenant-Colonel James Andrew Shannon, U. S. A.," and an invitation is also being sent to the Cambridge Post No. 27, of the American Legion...
...ready for something that seemed to be coming. We could not see it, but we knew it was in the air. Again, as I look over your faces, it takes me back to the days of the training camp during the war when we used to get a regiment together and I told them about their duties and many of the things that they needed to know before they were ready for overseas work. There are some changes in these faces; but it is the same type of man. Now we are over with the actual condition...
...Brigadier because of his talents exhibited during the Spanish War. Readers will recall that Wood was the first commanding officer of the Rough Riders and Roosevelt was second in command. After the first battle near Santiago, Wood was made a Brigadier General and Roosevelt took command of the regiment of Rough Riders. In connection with the coming visit of General Wood to Massachusetts a luncheon is to be tendered to him at Symphony Hall on April 13th under the auspices of the Class of 1884 Harvard Medical School. This is to be a non-political gathering and will be merely...
...first round of the doubles in the twenty-first annual men's National Indoor Championship Lawn Tennis Tournament in the Seventh Regiment Armory, New York City, yesterday, W. W. Rowe '20 and J. B. Fenno, Jr. '21, won their match against G. A. Walker and H. Clarkson 6-4, 3-6, 9-7. Both men were, however, eliminated in the fifth round of the singles championships. Rowe was matched against Vincent Richards, the national indoor champion, to whom he lost in two sets, 6-1, 6-1. Samuel Hardy had more difficulty in defeating Fenno...
...younger Harvard men of twenty odd years ago. Theodore Roosevelt at the outbreak of the Spanish war chose Captain Wood as Colonel of the Rough Riders, taking himself the rank of Lieutenant Colonel; and it was due to the commander's energy and resolution that the needs of the regiment in those days of unpreparedness were quickly satisfied, and, when other organizations were fuming at Key West, the men were landed in Cuba to enter upon their short but valuable service...