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Cambridge has the distinction of having raised the first company of volunteers for the suppression of the Rebellion. The company marched to Boston and was assigned to duty as Co. C, 3rd Regiment, M. V. M., April 17, 1861, and to-day an appropriate celebration of this historical event is to be held under the auspices of the city government. The programme includes the Federal salute of thirteen guns and the ringing of bells for one hour at sun-rise and sunset; a salute of thirty-eight guns and the ringing of bells during the procession of military and civic...
...number of the college and law-school men of Columbia College, have obtained the Fourteenth Regiment Armory, for the purpose of securing practice in tennis before the opening of the out-of-door clubs...
...pride of every student is the University Phalanx, which is a military organization of the students. It is a well disciplined regiment of young men from 20 to 30 years of age, and it is the pet of the army. The Phalanx is not under arms constantly; some years, as in '82 and '83, it does no drilling of any importance, but whenever there is any prospect of war, as in the present crisis in the East, it resumes its active discipline; and the university has just suspended most of the lectures temporarily, in order to allow the Phalanx...
...hill; the hotel was, however, soon reached, and the prospective contest prevented. There ensued a scene of confusion worse confounded than to some seemed necessary. It must be decided how to arrange rooms, and a good half hour was consumed in getting settled. That done, and supper over, a regiment of dress-suited fellows issued from the hotel and marched to martial music in the direction of the City Hall. The large assembly room of that building was used for the concert; it seats two thousand people and was filled almost to overflowing. A mighty sounding of "Ah!" ensued upon...
...bust of Charles Russell Lowell who served in the Rebellion as Colonel of the Second Massachusetts Cavalry, will be presented to the college by the officers of that regiment. It will be placed on the vacant bracket in the west end of Memorial, before commencement...