Word: drill
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Three times a week the game of handball is practiced in the cage by squads of four men from fifteen to twenty minutes a day. As soon as the time for one squad is over and the next one is ready, the men go through a light dumb-bell drill, and then take a run at an easy pace of about seven laps. Four years ago hand-ball was not played at all in connection with the training of the base-ball nines, but now there is not a college in the country which professes to do any gymnasium work...
...them upon the eve of speaking. Is it any wonder that from such material such results follow? The university has just cause for congratulation that the "dramatic expression" has passed as useless for practical purposes. But that does not aid matters. Men will not spend their time in oratorical drill unless they are compelled to do so by a demand made by the college that public speaking shall in some way be improved. How that end is to be accomplished is questionable. As it now stands the appeal is made to the personal pride of each member of the university...
...York athletic games, but considers the daily routine work of the team unworthy of his remarkable powers. When your talented correspondent is older and wiser, he will begin to realize that the "study of dramatic expression" consists for the most part of the daily drill of this despised elocution course...
...museums, and the largest library; but if we do not employ these advantages, our boast is vain. We have all heard time and time again of the slight mental strength gained, by passively taking our facts and ideas through the handy medium of a lecture. As far as real drill goes, listening to lectures affects our minds about as watching other men pull chest weights affects our bodies. As the office of the director of the gymnasium is to show us the apparatus which is for our own use, so the duty of our professors is to stimulate and guide...
...crew will practice in the gymnasium each evening this week the dumb-bell drill which they give next Saturday...