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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Insignia of rank will be of gift for tactical investors other instructors with relative rank and aides, white metal for all cadet officers. These insignia in the shape of circular flat disks for lieutenants and captains and flat diamond shape for majors will be worn on the shoulder straps of the coat as follows: 2nd lieutenant, one disk on each shoulder strap; 1st lieutenant, two disks on each shoulder strap; Captain, three disks on each shoulder strap; Major, one diamond on each shoulder strap. (c) Non-commissioned officers will wear the service chevrons prescribed for like grades in the Army...
...Insignia of Rank: (a) Insignia of rank will be of gilt for instructors and white metal for cadet officers. These insignia in the shape of circular flat disks for lieutenants and captains and flat diamond shape for majors will be worn on the shoulder straps of the coat, as follows: 2d Lieutenant, one disk on each shoulder strap; 1st Lieutenant, two disks on each shoulder strap. (b) When the shirt is worn without the coat, the insignia of rank etc., will be worn on the shirt collar as follows: I nsignia of rank on right. Collar ornament...
Harvard has no Freshman rules. A Freshman, if he chooses, may keep his seat in a street-car while the oldest living graduate--and his wife-strap-hang; he may stalk boldly about the Yard with a top hat on his head and a pipe--any kind of a pipe--in his mouth. Even "Bloody Monday" is not at all bloody; and for some years, it hasn't even come on Monday. Here, the Freshman is subject to no laws which do not apply equally to upperclassmen...
Gibson, who played third base last year on the University baseball team, was trying to get into Stoughton 10 on the third floor to get some old clothes, when the strap on the fire escape broke and he fell thirty feet to the stone pavement, breaking one ankle, spraining the other, and bruising his face considerably. It is not known whether or not internal injuries were sustained. Gibson was taken to the Stillman Infirmary immediately after the accident...