Word: battalion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...happens that the universities are hot beds of Nihilism and other reforms. College societies and meetings are strictly prohibited and an assemblage of half a dozen students is likely to be dispersed. In this case by a sergeant of police and a few men, instead of a registrar and battalion of proctors. As a rule the students smoke, drink whiskey or beer, and when they can get the necessary kopecks, attend the ballet. As the majority of the students are chronically short of cash, Mr. Solomon receives considerable of their attention...
...held in the large drill hall of the school, which had been decorated for the occasion. Long before the hour announced on the programme the hall was filled with an audience composed of the best citizens of Boston. Many students from Harvard were present. The officers of the battalion, in full uniform, acted as ushers. The speaker's desk was draped with the banner which the Latin School company, composed of alumni of the school, carried through the Rebellion. This quarter-millenial celebration of the school will long be remembered as one of the proudest and most successful events...
...companies of the 65th battalion called into service to suppress the Riel Rebellion are composed entirely of students from the Quebec Medical and Law schools. The professors fear that they will have to discontinue their work, as the schools are so depleted...
...regular battalion, attached to the volunteer militia of England, is composed entirely of Oxford under-graduates...
...prescribed work. In the freshman year the work is a prescribed course, the same for all, and includes a course in military tactics. Military drill is required of the men in order that the Institute can obtain a yearly grant from the government. The freshman cadets make a fine battalion of several companies, drilling in the gymnasium several times each week. At the close of the freshman year the student is allowed to choose one of the following ten courses: civil, mechanical, electrical, or mining engineering, architecture, chemistry, natural history, biology, physics, or the general course. When his choice...