Word: troop
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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There will be a meeting of all members of the University interested in forming a cavalry troop in the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia in the Assembly Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. The preliminary arrangements regarding the organization have been made with the State officials, and it has been ascertained that if enough men enlist, the State will provide the necessary horses...
...effective pictures of incidents in the service of a "rookie" in the recent war games of the Massachusetts militia. Mr. Snedeker, in his "Pity Women," shows power to portray persons vividly and to convey a sense of sadness. Professor Neilson's appreciation of Mr. Hagedorn's important volume "A Troop of the Guard" is sympathetic and just. The review of Mr. Zangwill's "Melting Pot" is discriminating. Evidently, the prose in the number is alive with interest in matters of present concern within and without the College world...
...staff. After the battle of Antietam, Colonel Lowell received the honor of carrying the captured flags to Washington. While fighting with Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, he was wounded in the chest. Despite this wound he charged a village held by sharp-shooters at the head of his troop, receiving a fatal wound in the neck. General Sheridan said of Colonel Lowell "I never had to tell Colonel Lowell what to do. He had always seen it and done it before I told...