REVOLUTIONARY SHADES

The use of Massachusetts Hall by the R. O. T. C. recalls the fact that this is not the first time that soldiers have been there. "After the battle of Lexington when troops were collected it was given over to the occupancy of the soldiers. But the soldiers were of the same stock as the scholars, and the humanizing associations of the place were not lost upon them. The rooms in Massachusetts served as barracks until March, 1776, when the troops were withdrawn from Cambridge. A committee was appointed soon afterward by the general court to estimate the damages, which remained to be made good." These damages consisted mainly in the disappearance of many brass locks, which were probably needed for other more important purposes.

Let us hope that those men who drill in Massachusetts Hall now will realize that the Revolutionary soldiers were quartered there for one cause, the saving of their country, and that the men of 1917 are in the service of the same country at another time of national danger.