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Beginning today at 10 o'clock, the adjourned meeting of the Board will be held in University Hall. Then at 11.30 o'clock the Regiment will be reviewed in the Stadium. For this occasion the Stadium will be open to the public and all members of the University. The Harvard Club has invited the members of the Corporation and of the Board to lunch at 1.30 o'clock. The remainder of this afternoon has been reserved for the Overseers to visit those departments of the University in which they happen to be specially interested...
...interest this veteran of world-changing battles. In all truth it may be that which we might suppose would interest him the most will not stir him. He has seen so very much of war, so very much of soldiers, courageous, hardy, strong, that the sight of one more regiment, however gallant and well-trained it may be, could well cause small influence on him. What thought can he have of a thousand men? He has been in command of millions...
...Joffre, Marechal de France, that those thousand men, upreared in the spirit of liberty and proud in their strength, are worth more than a regiment of infantry. They would have stood well in the forefront of battle beside your bravest at the Marne...
Captain Philip Jensen, of the famous Canadian Black Watch Regiment, will speak on his experiences in the trenches and the Y. M. C. A. Hut Work in the British Army at the regular meeting of the Christian Association in Phillips Brooks House tomorrow night. The meeting will be held for, this time only, at 7.30 o'clock in the evening instead of 9.45 o'clock in the morning...
...Some of My Experiences in the Trenches, and the Y. M. C. A. Hut Work in the British Army," will be the subject of Captain Jensen's talk. Of the 1,500 men originally in the Black Watch Regiment, in which Captain Jensen holds a commission, only three are now living. Captain Jensen himself has been wounded 11 times, and seriously affected by poisonous gases. He has, in fact come to this country in order to receive special treatment to rid himself of lung trouble that has been caused by these gases...