Word: battalion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There has been great improvement in the drill of the Harvard Rifles within the last few days, due probably to the prize drill which is to take place Saturday, at the Irvington street armory, between the Rifles and the best company of the Technology battalion...
Thirty-seven men and three officers will compose each company and four selected men from each institution will compete for individual honors. The Technology battalion will hold their annual drill tomorrow night, at which they will select their best company and the individual squad which will represent them in their drill against Harvard on the following Saturday...
...meeting held last Saturday, the officers of the Technology battalion, finding that Mechanics Hall will be occupied upon May 15, voted to hold the competitive drill with Harvard in the South Armory, where they are at present practising...
Lieutenant Robinson has drawn for the Rifles the privilege of drilling after their opponents in the competitive drill with the Technology battalion. First and second prizes will be given and the general appearance of the companies on parade will be taken into account. Both companies will be put through their evolutions by some officer of the Boston Cadets, and not by their own commanders...
...this country could not be properly defended, in case of war, by an army of 25,000 men. They showed that by raising this number to 30,000, the expense would be increased only six per cent, arid that the added number of men would make possible the battalion formation, in which a large number of new men could be added at any time without trouble or confusion...