Word: drill
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...method of instruction is different from that at Harvard, and yet not the ordinary method of 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...
Saturday afternoon the Technology Battalion gave an exhibition drill and party in the Gymnasium on Huntington avenue. Harvard, especially Harvard '88, was well represented in the audience...
...battalion connected with the Institute of Technology will give an exhibition drill Saturday afternoon, in the gymnasium on Huntington Avenue...
...pitchers: Nichols, Wiuslow, Boyden and G. P. Baker. Five men have caught at different times, Allen, Crocker, Hurd, Tilden and Litchfield. Nothing however, is known as to the positions which the men will eventually ill. The course of training will for the present be general, consisting of daily squad drill and cage work three times each week. Phillips' health will not permit him to do any work at present, so that the entire cage work will be in the charge of Winslow...
...Every member must be ready for exercise every day except Saturday at the proper time, and must participate in every part of the team drill, or else give proper excuse for not doing so to the gentleman in charge of the division...