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...matters. Although Harvard swamped the Yale football team by the record-breaking score of 41-0, the general jubiliation did not prevent undergraduates from abiding by the Student Council's advocation of military preparedness and of voluntary military training for all members of the University. The Council suggested drill, supplemented by military science and tactics. A committee of graduates, undergraduates, and Law School men was appointed to take charge of inaugurating the system. It was estimated that a quarter of the men in College would enlist, since the drill would "in no way interfere with scholarship or athletics...
...they sometimes sound like a breath of Joe Miller ("Those bags are too much for you. Why don't you get a red cap?" "What's the matter with the hat I got on?"), sometimes make the laughs roll loud with their masterful pantomiming (learning how to drill, shooting craps...
...join the Battalion will get a training that will prepare them for possible further service. They will drill every Monday evening and will stand ready for brief mobilizations on the call of the Governor. Thursday drill is voluntary. The instruction will include rifle range practice, bayonet practice, and riot formation drills...
...there was some unnecessary repetition between courses, such as Ec. 45a on Business Cycles and Ec. 41 on Money, Banking and Commercial Crises. Members gave their hearty approval to the staff of teachers, most of whom are deeply absorbed in economics and are active in research. Consequently, the stagnant drill-master is a rare specimen in the Economics Department. Many members hope that Schumpeter can find time for an undergraduate course next year...
...said to freeze the other Sitwells into stoney stares of amusement. All three delight in caressing authors and critics they do not like with their individual or corporate paws. Edith once called a poem of John Masefield's "dead mutton" and Poet Cecil Day Lewis "an electric drill with the electricity left out." She and Osbert presented prizes to "the authors most representative of the tedious literature of the age." Novelist Henry Williamson got a stuffed fish; Biographer Harold Nicolson two stuffed kittens; the literary editor of the London Spectator 27 moth balls. Edith, by her own account...