26 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
THE NATIONAL FLAG—FLAG DAY JUNE 14 
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and torn, with one star missing, possibly shot away. This 
historic national souvenir of the War of 1812, has lately 
been preserved by quilting on heavy linen, and will ever 
remain one of the Country’s most precious relics. From 
1795 this form continued as the standard flag until Presi- 
dent Monroe’s administration, when ‘Congress enacted 
that it should thereafter be of thirteen stripes and twenty 
stars, with the addition of a star for each new State, com- 
mencing July 4, 1818. 
It seems that for many years the Army did not carry 
the Stars and Stripes in battle though it had been in gen- 
eral use as a garrison flag. The land forces during this 
period and before, carried what was known as National 
Colors or Standards, of blue with the coat-of-arms of the 
United States, comprising an eagle surmounited by a 
number of stars, emblazoned thereon, with the designa- 
tion of the body of troops. In 1834, War Department 
regulations gave the artillery the right to carry the Stars 
and Stripes. The infantry and cavalry still used the 
National Standards, which remained the colors of the 
infantry until 1841 and of the cavalry until 1887, when 
that branch of the Army was ordered to carry the Stars 
and stripes. From its adoption in 1777, however, naval 
vessels universally displayed the National Flag. 
June 8, 1917. 
Many forms of the stars-and-stripes flag existed un- 
til recently, for it was not until President Taft’s adminis- 
tration that definite specifications were drawn up. An 
Executive Order, dated October 29, 1912, prescribed 
standard sizes for the “Stars and Stripes,” and yet further 
specifications in sizes were found necessary by President 
Wilson, only last year. 
The history of our flag thus indicates that the “Stars 
and Stripes” was not officially carried by our troops in 
battle until the period of the Mexican War, 1846-47. 
Several flags of that period are in the Museum collections. 
Among them is a flag of 13 stars and stripes carried 
throughout that war by the battalion of volunteers from 
Maryland and the District of Columbia, and the flag of 
Company I, 4th Regiment of Indiana Infantry, of 13 
stripes, with an eagle in the field. Ten flags of the Na- 
national Museum collection pertain to the Civil War. 
Other flags include some of the Spanish American 
War, a flag used by Admiral Charles Wilkes, U. 5. Navy; 
a miniature flag carried by Captain C. F, Hall in the 
Artic, 1864-69; the American colors carried by Rear 
Admiral Peary in his Arctic explorations in 1909; the 
flag carried by the Smithsonian African Expedition under 
the direction of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, in 1909-10; 
and numerous examples of the National Ensign which has 
flown in notable engagements and during countless worthy 
achievements. 
MAGNOLIA. YOUNG WoMAN WILL BE 
Miss Mary Emeline Boyd of Mag- 
nolia, who is a senior at Western col- 
lege for Women at Oxford, Ohio, 
will be one of the class of 38 gradu- 
ates of the class of 717. Miss Boyd 
Dr. William 
LIBRARY NOTES 
Books Added to Manchester Public Library in May 
Fiction 
Alabaster Box, Freeman and Kingsley 
Antony Gray—Gardener Moore 
Blue Bonnet Keeps House 
Jacobs and 
Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer, 
Chaneing Winds, 
Child of the Moat, 
Shadow Line, 
Shoestrings, 
Richards 
Halsey 
Ervine 
Holborn 
To the Last Penny, 
Tollhouse, The, 
is a graduate of the Story High 
ONE OF GRADUATES. school, Manchester. 
Oxley 
president of the Ohio State Univer- 
sity will give the Commencement ad- 
dress on Wednesday, June 12. 
day is Baccalaureate Day when Dr. 
Road to Understanding 
>) 
Stars in their Courses, 
Story of Richard Trent, 
Ten Beautiful Years, 
W. W. Boyd, president of the college, 
will have charge of the services. Class 
Day which comes on June 11 will 
open with senior step exercises at 9 
o’clock to be followed by class re- 
unions. At two o’clock in the after- 
noon there will be an art exhibit and 
then a round table discussion for 
alumne, “Mice and Men,” the junior 
class play will be presented later in 
the afternoon and the commencement 
concert 1n the evening. 
For Alumnze Day the Rev. Charles 
Little of Wabash, Ind., has been in- 
vited to conduct the chapel exercises 
in the morning. Induction of the 
Thompson, 
Sun- 
Porter, EK. H. 
Conrad 
Foster senior class into the alumnz associa- 
- Sharp tion, a business meeting of the alumnze 
kes tine association, a meeting of the board of 
trustees, an address before the Honor 
society precede the alumne banquet 
Lefevre 
St. Leger 
Children of Fate, Rutledge ees The, Bakes at 12.30. “Les Romanesques,” the 
1 v3 ya 7 T+ ro eYrtTOW ‘18 
Chosen People, Nybure. Shee te 0 Pee French play, at four o’clock and the 
Christmas Stories, Faulkner Unwelcome Man, rank necdene : : | : 
Pinadesallatinie: Cooke Uv the Hill and Over, Mackay presidents reception in the evening 
Diversity of Creatures, Kipling War Phases According to Maria, Lane conclude the program for the day. 
Doubloons—and the Girl Forbes Way Hearts Go, Hayward oe 5€ i 
Edith Bonham, : Foote Worn Doorstep, Sherwood Ay eee ne represented in the 
Ford, The, Austin ae graduating cass. 
Gold Must be Tried by Fire, Maher Non-Fiction 
Hornet’s Nest, Woodrow 
Kingdom of the Blind, 
Leatherface, 
Light in the Clearing, 
Lamp yan 
Oppenheim 
Orezy 
Bacheller 
Johnston 
Louisberg Square, Cutler 
Mark of Cain, Wells 
Middle Pasture, Bilbro 
Mistress Anne, sailey 
Nothing Matters, Tree 
Our Next Door Neighbors, Maniates 
Polar Hunters, Rolt-Wheeler 
Preacher of Cedar Mountain, 
Seton, Earnest T. 
Regiment of Women, Dane 
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Fee ee cnc nce tanta dctiadime dacmeteshateniditiieldeai a alti 
Better Meals for Less Money, Greenough 
Erewhon, Butler 
Kurope Since 1815, Hazen 
Grapes of Wrath, Cable 
Cravath 
Tatloek 
Great Britain’s Part, 
Greek and Roman Mythology, 
Inside the German Empire, Swope 
Lloyd George, Dilnot 
Middle Years, Hinkson 
Philosophy of William James, Flournoy 
Sea Warfare, Kipling 
Soldier-Doctor of Our Army, Kimball 
To Mother. An Anthology of 
Mother Verse. 
To Verdum from the Somme, Brittain 
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