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 sume the drill after the summer vacation. Nor was it offered the following year. The students, with the war in full swing, chafed with impatience. Those who were thinking of enlisting desired sufficient preliminary training to go as officers, “and do not consider it their duty to go as privates.” In the autumn of 1863, therefore, the whole College signed a petition to the Faculty for drill as an extra branch of the regular curriculum. But Lawrence had now retired, arms were said to be difficult to get, and the petition died in committee. In March, 1864, the seniors, disgusted at this policy of “strict neutrality,” took the matter into their own hands and formed a Drill Club, which met in the old shed (behind College House) used by the citizens’ home defence unit, the “Cambridge Washington Guard.” After several elections and resignations, the following officers were secured: captain, H. J. Huidekoper, of Meadville, Pennsylvania; 1st lieutenant, S. Storrow, of Boston; 2d lieutenant, E. R. Howe, of Cambridge; clerk, C. F. Davis, of Cambridge. Not very much more seems to have been accomplished, however. See various contemporary items in the Harvard Magazine, from June, 1861, to April, 1864.

Indeed, the bone and sinew of the College had long before this left Cambridge for active service under one or the other of the two opposing flags. There was no such sudden exodus as in the Revolution. The usual