Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This summer about 400 students have held vacation positions, many of them as tutor-companions or camp councillors...
...Harvard and Yale Juniors who are enrolled in Military Science at their respective institutions buried the hatchet, smoked the pipe of peace, and united for six weeks of practical military training at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont this summer. Camp opened on June 27 and the first two weeks were spent in the concurrent camp at Fort Ethan Allen where the formal training was done. The last four weeks were spent deepen into the Green Mountains, under the slopes of Mount Mansfield, where facilities were available for artillery firing and the more practical side of field training. All hands agreed that...
With twenty-four students from Harvard and twenty-nine from Yale the honors of the camp were evenly distributed. Harvard topped the lot when Francis X. Leary, '38 was awarded "The United States Field Artillery Association Medal for that Field Artillery student who, during the 1937 ROTC Camp, best exemplified, in outstanding soldierly characteristics, the high standards of the arm." Albert E. Brunelli, '38, topped the list of pistol shots in the camp by qualifying as a Pistol Expert with an average of 90.7. An average of 85 per cent is required for such qualification. Phillip M. Andress, '37, also...
...Marines' ten-man rifle squad; their third National Rifle Association team championship in which 119 teams participated; scoring 2,788 (out of a possible 3,000) against the U. S. Cavalry's 2,764, the U. S. Infantry's 2,760; at Camp Perry, Ohio. The Los Angeles Police five-man team won the .45 caliber pistol match, scoring 1,332 (out of a possible 1,500) to beat the U. S. Marines' 1920 record...
...Force" as did Jesus, Krishnamurti has renounced Theosophy and in fact all systems, dogmas, labels, ties, organizations. Wandering continually about the world, he holds meetings for people who are interested in learning his mystic way of life and thought, as some 3,000 were this summer at the annual camp meeting he holds at Ommen, Holland, on property given him by a Dutch nobleman. His friends-he dislikes the word "disciple" because "one who is a disciple is already bound"-call him "Krishnaji," an honorific title roughly meaning "Sir Krishna." Last week, looking nearer 20 than 42, with...