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...same views which prompted his support of the Compton Report on Universal Military Training in 1947. As an educator he sees advantages in the so-called Swiss plan: subjecting men from 18 to 28 to three or four summer camps of two or three months each and evening drill, presumably once a week, for ten years. If he wished, the eligible youth could volunteer for two years immediate service instead...
According to comparative scores, historical indications, and the condition of the Crimson players, the Varsity soccer team should find this afternoon's contest with Tufts more of scoring drill than a tight game...
...rich was the lode that drilling was done only where ore could be reached readily. One of the best deposits was found by accident when a new-type drill was tested at the Burnt Creek camp site. The drill bit down into the earth, struck rich ore at two feet, was still in it when drilling was stopped at 367 feet...
...Series. He was not only the brain of Cleveland's keyed-up baseball organism, he was also the heart of it. Boudreau's pick-off play (catching a runner off base) was easily the Series' most spectacular play, and an example of his drill-order perfectionism. The first time it was tried, Boudreau tagged Runner Phil Masi, and thought he had him (the pictures seemed to bear him out) but Umpire Bill Stewart called the runner safe...
...purpose of West Point, therefore, is not to act as a glorified drill sergeant, but to lay the foundation upon which a career in growth of military knowledge can be based, and to accompany it by two indispensable additions; first, such a general education as educated men find necessary for intelligent intercourse with one another; and second, inculcations of a set of virtues, admirable always, out indispensable in a soldier. Men may be inexact or even untruthful in ordinary matters and suffer as a consequence only the disesteem of their associates or the inconveniences of unfavorable litigation, but the inexact...