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 Longfellow Park. Here, in the single afternoon permitted them, tents were set up and struck, guard mounted and relieved, and a “practice” meal issued; but the time proved too inadequate, and in a couple of years the experiment was given up.

In 1825 a third loan of arms was negotiated, and the Corps was actually recognized in the College Catalogue: “Military exercises are allowed on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12 to 1 or after evening Commons, with music not oftener than every other time, and liberty of parading on the afternoon of Exhibition days.” The limitation on music was to keep down expenses: it was one of the boasts of the Corps that their annual assessment was not over five or six dollars. For several (college) generations the field music emanated from two noted local characters, “Old Simpson” the drummer, and “Old Smith” the fifer. “Fifty years ago,” said John Holmes (H. C. 1832) in 1875, “the rub-a-dub of the College Company in the September evenings was considered by children as natural to Cambridge Common as the chirp of the crickets.” On formal parades a brigade band of twenty-eight pieces was hired.

These parades on the three annual “Exhibition days” of the College, in October, May, and July,—the term then continued till the last of August!—took the place