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...slice of the armed forces, 359,000 troops of Lieut. General Hugh Drum's First Army, went into eight-week battle maneuvers in the Carolinas. Canny Hugh Drum had had his test postponed from summer to fall to give more training. From afar he had a chance to scout the Louisiana battle. Now in October the Army's center of self-criticism-General McNair's GHQ staff-settles down in the Carolinas to see what they will...
...Lear's engineers, ably supported by horsemen of Major General John Millikin's Second Cavalry Division, lingered far behind the main body as it retired to the north. They threw down tank barricades, planted thousands of mines that erupted smoke (and theoretical destruction) when tank or scout car disturbed them...
Final blow came as General Krueger threw his cavalry in. Innis P. Swift, commander of the Blue's First Cavalry Division, swept out of East Texas with 17,500 men, on horse, motorcycle and scout car, slashed east and north around the Reds' right flank in a night ride. By that time Ben Lear knew the worst. Driven back from two headquarters, he had lost most of his rear-area supplies to Horseman Swift...
Social service work is by far the most popular Brooks House activity. Mustered by a committee of about fifteen students, volunteers work with underprivileged boys in Greater Boston settlement houses. Scout troops, boys clubs, athletic teams, and discussion groups are the usual thing, though individual hobby groups deal with almost everything...
...file of the staffs of Boston's settlement houses. Boys from Brooks House spend their spare time passing on their knowledge to other boys who have never been given a chance to get to college. Boys from Brooks House represent Harvard before the city on lecture platforms, as scout leaders, are financed by your Council Pledge...