Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...every evening except Saturday for instruction of squad leaders and others who are willing to assist in drilling. All candidates for company officers will be expected to be present at three meetings a week at least. The instruction will cover manual of arms, bayonet exercise, school of the soldier, school of the company, extended order drill and school of the batallion...
...every evening except Saturday for instruction of squad leaders and others who are willing to assist in drilling. All candidates for company officers will be expected to be present at least three meetings a week. The instruction will cover manual of arms, bayonet exercise, school of the soldier, school of the company, extended order drill and school of the battalion...
...five mullioned windows is to be filled with the arms of the college, and a large tablature containing a memorial inscription written by President Eliot and translated into Latin by Professors Morgan and Greenough. In the extreme left hand of these five windows is to be a soldier in armour with a crimson cape and banner, and in the corresponding right-hand window, a scholar in crimson suit with cap and gown. In the two remaining mullioned windows are to be shrines and short Latin inscriptions to the soldier and scholar. In the four quatrefoils above these windows there will...
...north end of the transept was chosen, for though the window will miss the southern light, it will be seen immediately on entering the door nearest the College Yard. It has been Mrs. Whitman's aim to make the window in keeping with the memorial feeling of scholar and soldier. She has chosen red as the dominent color of the window because it is to commemorate war, is a rich color such as a north window needs, and stands especially for Harvard...
...reading will include some of the sayings of Lincoln, the Gettysburg Speech, a part of the Commemoration Ode, "O Captain, My Captain," by Whitman, and a part of Mr. Higginson's speech in gift of the Soldier's Field...