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...efforts of certain members of the fencing squad, a bayonet team will be formed at the University and will have outside matches with other universities and colleges. Coach Leslabay of the fencing team, who was a captain in the R. O. T. C. last summer and had entire charge of its bayonet practice, will coach the new team...
These outside bayonet matches are an outgrowth of a general feeling expressed at recent athletic meetings that military sports such as bayonet-fencing, wall-scaling, rescue races and grenade-throwing should be included among field events. Several other institutions, notably Yale and Columbia, have indicated that they will follow the same course, so that opponents for the team are assured...
...land we hustled to a camp and got shore down. Then we began the work which a vanguard must always do in preparation for that which is to follow. Of course, some of the work didn't have much to do with the rifle and bullet, or the bayonet, but it was and is necessary; at present of vastly greater importance that the above. With the necessity of five men behind the lines for one at the front the adage about the acorn and the oak is reversed to a large extent as regards war. The gigantic preparation that...
...been getting it for the past couple of months in a manner that makes one itch for the actual hunting grounds. Sir, I admire, sympathize with, and love the French, but it's the British to whom I give my respect. They've got the 'spirit of the bayonet'; they've changed their easy going temperament and, taught by bitter experience, answer the cry 'Kamerad' with a short sharp jab; they're fighting mad, playing the game for all it's worth. System? They've got everything down to a fine point; a great part of the time the Tommies...
...many universities can now be developed to a high point of efficiency through the adoption of this new plan. Let competitions of this sort not stop here, however, but include all others in which it is especially necessary for a soldier to be experienced. Wall-scaling, rescue races and bayonet contest should be held also. the spirit of track rivalry may well take on a more direct military value...