. The Varsity war supplement 1917. dance, Of plastic circumstance, This Present, thou, forsooth, would fain arrest:Machinery just meantTo give the soul its bent, Try thee and turn thee forth, sufficiently impressed. 115 THE YARSITY^MAGAZINE SUPPLEMENT^ The Faculty of Applied Science and the War By Dean Ellis ON the 5th of May, 1862, a company ofVolunteer Rifles was organized from amongthe members of the University, and on the21st of November of the same year it wasincorporated as No. 9 Company in the 2nd Bat-talion of Volunteer Militia just organized under thedesignation of the Queens Own Rifl
. The Varsity war supplement 1917. dance, Of plastic circumstance, This Present, thou, forsooth, would fain arrest:Machinery just meantTo give the soul its bent, Try thee and turn thee forth, sufficiently impressed. 115 THE YARSITY^MAGAZINE SUPPLEMENT^ The Faculty of Applied Science and the War By Dean Ellis ON the 5th of May, 1862, a company ofVolunteer Rifles was organized from amongthe members of the University, and on the21st of November of the same year it wasincorporated as No. 9 Company in the 2nd Bat-talion of Volunteer Militia just organized under thedesignation of the Queens Own Rifles of Officer Commanding the company was CaptainH. H. Croft, Professor of Chemistry in the Univer-sity. The present Dean of theFaculty of Applied Science joinedthe Company as private onmatriculating in 1863 and retiredwith the rank of captain in Company served as a unitin the Fenian Raid of 1866 andwas represented in the RedRiver Expedition of 1870, in theNorth West Field Force of1885 and in the South African. war. For many years the Univer-sity Rifles served as a nurseryfor officers of the CanadianMilitia, a large number of field officers of militiabattalions having received theirfirst military training whileundergraduates of the Univer-sity. Several general officersserving in the present war,among them the lamented Gen-eral Mercer are in this category. On the retirement in 1883 ofProfessor Alfred Baker from of the Company, theclose connection of the Univer-sity with the Queens Own Rifleswhich had subsisted for morethan twenty years graduallyceased on account^of the diffi-culty of accommodating drill
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