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...summer of 1861. During the dull weeks of army drill his regimental bandmaster had recalled a Methodist camp-meeting hymn with the resounding chorus, 'Glory Hallelujah!' He adapted the air to his military instruments, and it had become a well-known marching tune in the regiment. Some unknown poet composed rough words to the air, and when the regiment came marching up State street on July 23, 1861, on its way to the front, the men were singing the original John Brown song. Four months later when Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, on her first visit to Washington, heard the soldiers...
...University shooting team will compote with Yale, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania in the semi-annual intercollegiate shoot at Philadelphia this morning. Each team will be composed of five men, each of whom will shoot at 50 birds thrown at unknown angles. Harvard won the shoot last spring and was second in the shoot last fall...
...call for candidates for next season's University eleven has been exceedingly disappointing. Less than 40 men have reported for work, and many of these ceased coming out after the first week. When it is remembered that the great majority of football players now in the University is unknown to the present head coach, it will be readily seen what a handicap he will be forced to work under this fall unless he is in some way able to meet the men this spring and to see them at work. It is not expected that men who are occupied...
...call for candidates for next season's University eleven has been exceedingly disappointing. Less than 40 men have reported for work, and many of these ceased coming out after the first week. When it is remembered that the great majority of football players now in the University is unknown to the present head coach, it will be readily seen what a handicap he will be forced to work under this fall unless he is in some way able to meet the men this spring and to see them at work. It is not expected that men who are occupied...
...shooting team will hold a shoot with the Watertown gun Club at Watertown this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Each man will shoot at 50 birds thrown from a Magau trap at unknown angles...