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...rumbling of trucks that startled Mansfield, Kingston, Stonington and other towns on the New Haven road yesterday was not the vanguard of a traveling circus. Neither will be the bulging baggage cars, automobiles and the general stars of an anabasis that will stream along the Shore Line during the next 24 hours. All the activity will be that of the preliminaries required before the Harvard football team can play the Yale football team in the Bowl tomorrow...
...single file would come the 15 other battleships, stretching back six miles to the Pedro Miguel locks where the Florida (oldest and fastest of them all) would be chafing to get put. Then about one mile of light cruisers; then the submarines- almost a hundred of them-with their vanguard creeping midget-like through the yawning Gaillard Cut;* then another five miles of 106 pert destroyers impatient for the open sea; finally the submarine chasers, the mine sweepers, the airplane carriers, the colliers, the oilers, the cargo ships, and the last hospital ship struggling in the Gatun Locks...
Nine years ago, an anxious group of these same Bretons of St. Nazaire strained their eyes toward the sea to catch the first glimpse of the liner that was bringing the vanguard of American troops to France. Last week, with French and American warships roaring salutes, with Breton peasants waving American flags, with General Pershing, Admiral Gleaves, Ambassador Herrick, and General Gouraud looking on, the canvas was lifted from Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney's* inspired masterpiece. The statue stands 300 ft. out in the harbor on a 70-ft. masonry pillar. The eagle has a tensile wingspread...
...Catholic laity and the lesser clergy ?gold bannered folk, Dominican friars in their white cassocks, Trapist and Capuchin monks in brown, Benedictines and Jesuits in black?then the resplendent, gold-draped bishops and archbishops. Homage and glory mount as the procession nears its end. Fifteen cardinals are coming, vanguard to the Host behind. Papal guards in scarlet, blue and yellow uniforms follow. Then comes, under a canopy of gold and surrounded by censor-bearing acolytes, the Blessed Sacrament. It is inclosed in its golden ostensorium, its jeweled monstrance. No less a personage may carry it than His Eminence, Giovanni...
...first event of the week-end regatta will take place at 5.30 o'clock this afternoon when the University 150-pound crew meets the M. I. T. lightweight oarsmen. The race comes as the vanguard of the three feature contests tomorrow afternoon between the regular, second, and Freshman representatives of the University, Pennsylvania...