Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...article by Gen. Lister on "Military Drill" has been sent to us too late for insertion in this issue. As it contains statements of much interest to students in general, we have sent it to the Advocate for publication next week...
...Spirit of the Times, accusing this fellow (pointing to Socrates) of lack of politeness at a dinner given to the prizefighter Pericles; I now find that he has taken his revenge on me by hiring a mercenary slave to intoxicate Listerops, my head bird, so that the latter cannot drill his army this evening in his usual brilliant style." Before Aristophanes could proceed further with his dastardly reflections on the noble Socrates, the Freshmen blew a shower of beans through their bean-shooters, and drove the cowardly man, with his whole retinue of beasts and birds, from the ring...
MANY complaints have been made about the Gymnasium, and it seems to us that they are justifiable now more than ever. Since the Rifle Corps has been organized there have been three or four drills per week. The Corps completely fills the Gymnasium, not excepting the bowling-alley, and so hinders the non-drillers from exercising. Our winters, during which the Corps must drill under cover, are so long that they take up the greater part of the college year, so that with little room, and a ventilation that keeps many away altogether, the need of a new gymnasium...
...having a finger in the pie; our only wonder is that the undergraduates did not march to Concord by classes, wearing battered stove-pipes and gowns turned inside out But there was probably no time for the manufacture of the requisite transparencies; and we must remember that the Harvard Drill Corps had not then been organized. It is also very probable that many of the students had Tory sympathies...
...Cornell Era has an editorial upon military drill, which it pathetically terms "Our Military Inflictions." It appears that drilling is a part of the required curriculum of the University, and that the students are so anxious to get rid of it that they propose to send a petition to the Trustees ("if the Faculty so advise") requesting their permission to have the obnoxious regulation abolished. Apropos of the article on Military Drill in the last Magenta, it expresses the friendly wish that the "infliction" may be transferred to Harvard, "body and spirit," - whatever that may mean...