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Captain Beith was just under the maximum age limit for enlistment at the outbreak of the war and immediately enrolled in the Tenth Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, which went into training at Aldershot in the fall of 1914. The regiment remained in training for six months and were finally sent to the front in the spring of 1915 as members of the first detachment of England's volunteer army. Captain Beith's ability and courage soon won him a commission and he rose rapidly to the rank of captain. He has recently been granted a furlough by the British...
...United States has just been presented with another illustration of the fact that its militia system is all at sixes and sevens. On Wednesday the Twelfth New York Regiment was ordered to pass in review before Senator Wadsforth of New York, and an officer in the Carranza Army. For some reason the appearance of the regiment was unsatisfactory, so that Major-General O'Ryan ordered it to march past the reviewing stand a second time. An order of this kind is not altogether unusual, and not particularly noteworthy...
Major Henry Lee Higginson '55, Colonel T. L. Livermore, Colonel Logan, commanding officer of the Ninth Regiment, N. G. M., senior ranking officer among the guests of the evening, and Odin Roberts '86, president of the Harvard Club, will speak at the reception to be given to the members of the University who served on the border last summer in Massachusetts volunteer organizations by the Harvard Club of Boston this evening at 8 o'clock...
There were 51 members of the University at the border this summer, and of these 14 are Seniors, 23 are Juniors, 11 are Sophomores and three are Freshmen. Most of these men served in Battery A and in the machine gun company of the Eighth Regiment...
...Regiment Band has done a great deal for Harvard University both last year in the Regiment and this fall at the football games. Without doubt the presence of the band at the Yale Bowl will be an enormous asset and men should think of this now instead of when it is too late. It will cost about five hundred dollars to pay the entire expenses of taking the fifty musicians down to New Haven, Buy a red handkerchief, drop a quarter in a collection box, or contribute at the mass meeting; only remember the Band...