The meeting held last night in the Cambridge Armory of the Massachusetts Infantry for the purpose of explaining the details in regard to the formation of a machine-gun company from the University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology students was attended by over 60 men from the two institutions, about 35 of whom were Harvard men. Captain F. J. Burnham in stating that the company would be mobilized immediately pointed out the advantages that might be derived from military life, and a half hour was spent in demonstrating to the men the use of the Benet-Mercier machine guns.
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