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...year ago this month the companies of the Harvard Regiment held their first drills in the wintry atmosphere of the baseball cage. Today the success and achievements of the thousand men who composed the Regiment are looked back on with pride and a feeling of wonder. On Wednesday, January tenth, a dinner for all the men enrolled last year will be held at the Union, in order to commemorate the establishing of the Regiment and to keep alive the spirit of sacrifice and patriotism that made possible the remarkable results which Captain Cordier obtained. Major-General Leonard Wood...
Gathering together for the first time since they were mustered out by General Wood on May 30, 1916, the members of the Harvard Regiment will hold a reunion in the form of a dinner in the Union next Wednesday, January 10, at 7 o'clock. General Leonard Wood '84M., Major Henry Lee Higginson '55 and Major Halstead Dorey, U. S. A., will address the Regiment, and unless prevented from doing so President Lowell will also be among the speakers...
...Gookin, of the Episcopal Theological Seminary, will address the Society on a Christmas topic. This will be the last meeting of the year, the next one being on Wednesday, January 10, 1917, at which the speaker will be the Reverend M. W. Dewart, chaplain of the First Regiment, Field Artillery, N. G. M., during its service at the border last summer...
...know that it is measured in weeks rather than months, and perhaps in days. In the beginning, the small Expeditionary force held on to the long line with ever-diminishing numbers but were mercifully relieved in May of 1915 by the first Kitchener division, the Ninth, of which my regiment was a part. This ended the first stage of the war, but the second continued for over a year while we harrowed and wore down the enemy bit by bit, saving our ammunition for Saturday afternoon 'parties...
...America to resume in person his lively and picturesque narrative of the "First Hundred Thousand--still first", as he touchingly puts it at the close of his book, but, alas, no longer The Hundred Thousand. At the beginning of the war he enlisted in a well-known Highland regiment, in spite of the fact that his thirty-eight years put him almost over the age limit for military service. Then came six months of arduous training at Aldershot with the other members of the motley collection known as Kitchener's mob, or "K(1)". In April, 1914, he was sent...